Frustration with buying fruit and vegetables that are never ready to eat prompted a 13-year-old Tauranga girl to a design a machine to help.
Now that machine has resulted in her winning best in fair at the Bay of Plenty Science and Technology fair held last week.
Anamaya Taylor, of Tauranga Intermediate was awarded the best in the fair for her project titled 'Avocado Time Machine', netting her $600 in prizemoney.
"We all buy fruits and vegetables and they're never ripe. So, I wanted to come up with a way for the avocado or any other fruit and vegetable to work around you" she said.
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