Milford Student Wins Eversource Energy Award at Invention Convention

From Eversource Energy:

Aiden Day, a student at Harborside Middle School in Milford, has won an Eversource Energy Award at the 33rd annual Connecticut Invention Convention (CIC). Day's invention, "Lights Out," is a hinge-style switch that turns the lights in a room or closet on or off with the opening or closing of a door and helps to conserve electricity.

A team of judges from Eversource reviewed more than 825 inventions created by students in fourth through eighth grades in order to select recipients for the Eversource Energy Award. Winners were selected based on four criteria: generation of power, conservation of electricity, use of green technology as an energy source and electrical safety.

The CIC is the largest and longest, continuously operating program of its kind in the nation. This year, an estimated 17,000 children from schools in Connecticut, New Hampshire and New York participated.

Photo: Front Row (left to right): Amanda Greaves (winner from Hartford), Alexis Santos (winner from Newington), Nicholas Koelle (winner from North Branford), Henry Beckenfeld (winner from Essex), Aiden Day (winner from Milford)

Back Row (left to right): Greg Wilkosz (Eversource judge), Ray Hamilton (Eversource judge), Diana Mahoney (Eversource judge), Abhinav Kumar (winner from Rye, N.Y.)