CUOMO: The news is filled with stories about who's doing the wrong thing. Here's a story about someone doing the right thing, the Good Stuff. An 11-year-old, she just beat a terrible form of cancer, okay? But, she didn't just go relax or go play or just be a kid, alright. So after she's well she decides to help others still fighting the disease. Kylie Simmons remembers what she felt like when she first saw all the equipment and wires and bags, you know, that have to go along with the IV pulls in the hospital.</s>KYLIE SIMMONS, CANCER SURVIVOR: When I first went to the office, I was like "Whoa, those things are huge and scary."</s>CUOMO (voice-over): You know, and remember, these things just scare kids even more than the condition. So, she decided to make something that would make it not so scary for little kids. A special backpack, and backpacks are like all the rage, right? It does it all. It holds the IV bag, the machinery, and all the cables, but its in this like kid-friendly bag so they feel like everybody else.</s>BOLDUAN (voice-over): Love it.</s>SIMMONS: This would be the drip and it would go through the machine on the front and you can put it on, and you can walk around with it.</s>CUOMO: She came up with it all be herself, it was a school project. Her teachers were so impressed, they submitted it to a state competition and she won.</s>BOLDUAN: Go ahead!</s>CUOMO: All categories, including the prestigious patent award which forwards the invention to the patent office. So now, she has a gofundme page.</s>CUOMO (on camera): She has a gofundme page. Working to make a prototype. They've raised $21,000 so far, so if you want to give, gofundme.com
Young Cancer Survivor has Invention to Help Kids with Cancer