Meet Maya Trutschl, 18, who built $130 bedsore detector and won $25,000

At an age when most teenagers might have their minds on crushes, fashion or the latest album releases, Shreveport resident Maya Trutschl was thinking about a problem in hospital ICUs: how to stop bedsores before they appear.In the ICU, patients lie motionless for hours. Their skin may show no signs of damage. But beneath the surface, tissue is already breaking down. By the time a nurse notices the wound, the invisible injury has already begun. The 18-year-old decided to fix this. And she did! The teenager has just won a $25,000 Davidson Fellows Scholarship for engineering a system that detects pressure injuries before they become visible.“I am profoundly honoured to be recognised as a Davidson Fellow and to become part of such an inspiring community of curious, dedicated young people,” Maya Trutschl said in a statement.