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A young high school student from Sydney's west has spent her lockdown inventing a needle-free injection while she anxiously waits for her school to reopen again.
Jorja Suga, 14, has been eagerly waiting for her school to reopen so she gain access to a 3D printer to create the prototype for the invention she's been working on all lockdown.
The year 9 student from Liverpool has been designing a needle-free version of the Epipen while undergoing home learning for the last three months.
A budding inventor, Jorja began developing the idea for a school project at the end of last year before the Delta outbreak plunged the city into a statewide lockdown.
Jorja Suga, 14, (pictured) spent most of her lockdown designing a needle-free version of the Epipen
'At the end of last year we were doing a school project based on STEM [Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics],' Jorja told Daily Mail Australia.
'I wanted to look more into the biology side of innovation.'
While in home learning, Jorja began researching anaphylaxis and came across studies that showed a person's fear of
