Student inventor says he’s just getting started
17 Dec 2019
GILLETTE — Hunter Chase isn’t one to rest on his laurels.
The fourth-grader won the Fan Favorite Award at the fourth annual Gillette College Startup Weekend with his Honest Alien Piggy Bank, an invention he created to help kids save money.
It’s a piggy bank in name only. It’s bright green and has five eyes, neither of which are features of your normal pig. But it’s remote-controlled and can go around a room, picking up coins off the floor.
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