Pahang pupil is world’s ‘best young inventor’


Yes, iCan: Maryam (second from right) and her family posing with her awards from the competition.

SHE may be 11 years old but Maryam Muzamir is already establishing herself as a bona fide inventor.

The Year Five student at SK (P) Methodist Kuantan, Pahang, recently notched up not one, not two, but three achievements in her first international competition – earning praise from Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob and United States talk show host James Corden.

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