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The Kindling Cracker

New Zealander Ayla Hutchinson, now 16, invented this ingenuous device when she was just 14 years old.

After seeing her mother cut her hand while using a splitting axe, Ayla set out to invent a safer way to split firewood. Her initial invention, made of welded scrap metal, won her first prize at her school science fair.

Since then, she’s won a Rising Star Award from Buy New Zealand Made, the Fieldays Young Inventor
of the Year Award, and the New Zealand Innovation Most Inspiring
Individual Award.

The Kindling cracker has gone on to be a bestseller on Amazon. Every sale supports her burgeoning business.

Ayla hopes to study Engineering or Architecture.

Images: ‘Ayla’s cracker invention keeps user’s fingers safe,’ Taranaki News Online; ‘Kindling Cracker girl Ayla Hutchinson’s story to be told in a book,’ Stuff New Zealand

Update, Ayla has created the Kindling Cracker King, is unstoppable.