Alright.
Inventor's chair.
Alright, what are we doing today?
Ahhhh that makes sense.
I'm not just the girl in the wheelchair.
It doesn't hold me back from anything.
It's not gonna stop me from having fun.
My name is Sadie McCallum.
I am almost 11 and I enjoy engineering
and building things.
Cerebral palsy is actually a brain injury
and I have so many problems that are unique to me.
He does conga line sometimes.
So I couldn't find a solution to my problems out there
so I made one myself.
And by inventing things for myself
I know that there are other people that can benefit from it too.
With CP, I haven't been able to move around so much
so I've become very observant.
While other kids are out doing things
in the yard, she's learning things and reading things.
She started inventing because there is an invention convention that
came to her school and she had this idea to make a walker that could climb a curb.
And I think we had ideas to like make it motorized
and fly do and all these things, but
she had a different idea and so we have kind of
left this and then focused on the second invention.
Which is the 'Walker-Wheeler.'
It is a walker and a wheelchair all in one.
We made this seat.
You just flip these down.
There's nothing out there, so she made it.
I think this would help a lot of kids
that have disabilities.
Tada!
Alright, everybody ready?
Alright. Go.
Wow, that looks cool. What is that thing?
It's the Walker-Wheeler.
Alright. Perfect.
Great job!
I like to talk about my disability because
the more people know, the less they are likely to judge.
I went to Washington, D.C. to speak to our lawmakers about
Medicaid and kid's health care and important things.
She's become a phenomenal communicator.
I'm not a cryer, but, you know,
you save these moments... it as a big deal.
She helps a lot of different kids
and that's how I think she's a hero.
She's finding ways to help, not only herself, but other people
with similar disabilities.
No body can put a better voice to these experiences
than the people that go through them themselves and
she has the ability to the world of
typical people with the world of people with disabilities.
The definition of her is all the things that she is
and not what she isn't.
Just because you're a kid and
you don't think you have the power to do something,
look into things. Things at school.
Things at home.
Find something that you enjoy that can make a difference and
it will.
I hope that people can see that
children with limitations can do anything.