EAGLE MOUNTAIN, Utah (AP) — A Utah high school student who lost both her parents to heart attacks has been nominated for a prestigious scholarship on the strength of her idea for a CPR assistance device.

The Daily Herald reports Kennedy Hall’s idea is to create a device that fits over the nose and mouth and do artificial breaths for a person.

Hall says many people have a basic idea of how to give CPR, but don’t know exactly how to do it.

She says a machine like she’s envisioning might have helped her parents.

Hall is a senior at Cedar Valley High School in Eagle Mountain. She was chosen as the school’s nominee for the Career and Technical Education Presidential Scholarship Award.

She hopes to attend Utah State University and become a trauma surgeon.