Third-grader Kailyn Brown won $25,000 for her child-friendly injection patches

For children who are nervous about needles, a routine visit to the doctor can bring an uncomfortable wait before an injection. Kailyn Brown, a schoolgirl from Columbia, South Carolina, knows the feeling herself. Rather than simply putting up with it, she began thinking about something that might make the experience easier for other children. Her idea became Sticky Pals with Magic Medicine, a concept for skin patches shaped around friendly characters that could help numb the area before a shot. Brown, who was in the third grade when she developed the idea, went on to win $25,000 in the kindergarten-to-fourth-grade business category of the Mott Million Dollar Challenge.How Kailyn Brown turned her fear of injections into Sticky PalsBrown did not begin with a business plan or a complicated medical problem to solve. She started with something familiar from her own life: she disliked getting injections. The discomfort gave her a reason to think about what might help children facing the same experience, and she came up with Sticky Pals with Magic Medicine.The proposed product combines a numbing patch with a character designed to make the process less intimidating for young patients. In he...