Necessity is the mother of invention.<\/p>\n
"It was raining and I wanted to ride my bike," said Friends School fifth-grader Renee Audette, explaining how she came to invent "Dry With 2 Wheels," a combination of a bicycle, an umbrella and a shower curtain.<\/p>\n
Renee, of Cedarcroft, is a student in Lisa Filer’s fifth-grade science class, which held its annual Inventors’ Fair March 8 on the Charles Street campus.
\nIn hopes of riding in the rain, Renee affixed a black umbrella to the handlebars of her bike and a sheer shower curtain around the outside of the rim of the umbrella.
\nWhy a shower curtain?<\/p>\n
"It was the only material I could think of," she said March 4, coming out of her music class to show off her bike as other science students put the finishing touches on their inventions. Necessity is the mother of invention. "It was raining and I wanted to ride my bike," said Friends School fifth-grader Renee Audette, explaining how she came to invent "Dry With 2 Wheels," a combination of a bicycle, an umbrella and a shower curtain. Renee, of Cedarcroft, is a student in Lisa Filer’s fifth-grade science class, … <\/p>\n
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