SAGLE — A Forrest M. Bird Charter School student was the runner-up in the 2015 I Cubed Challenge, a national student invention competition.

Garrett Hoyt, an eighth grader at the charter school, earned second place in the Jules Verne-category invention with a futuristic idea to rid babies of Down Syndrome in utero.

Hoyt’s concept, “DNA Reconstructer Robot,” uses nanotechnology to locate and extract the extra copy of the genes on chromosome 21, which eliminates the developmental disability.

“When a pregnant woman’s diagnosed with a baby that has Down Syndrome, the little robots get injected into the mom. They find the baby and remove the chromosome,” Hoyt said during an award ceremony at the Bird Aviation Museum on Friday.

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