#2 A 17-Year-Old Designed the 50-Star American Flag

There is still an ongoing debate on who designed the first American flag. But the current one, with fifty small five pointed stars and thirteen horizontal strips of red alternating white, was designed by a 17 year old, Robert G Heft,  as a part of his history class project.

Robert unstitched the blue region of the then existed 48-star flag, sewed in a new field using his mother's sewing machine. Then he used iron-on white fabric to add 100 hand-cut stars, 50 on each side of the blue. He originally received a B- for the project. Later, after his flag was chosen by the Congress, his teacher had raised his project grade to A, as a part of the former agreement made with her student. The 50 stars in the flag represent 50 states of United States Of America and the 13 stripes represent the 13 British colonies that declared independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain and joined the union.