Samantha Farb, 11, has won local, regional and national competitions in “Block-Kids,” sponsored by the National Association of Women in Construction. Her prizes include a trip to Disney World.

Eleven-year-old Samantha Farb, of Lecompton, created something out of nothing when she envisioned an environmentally sustainable facility from only construction paper, foil, string and Legos.

She imagined a “solar-powered, wind-powered, hydroelectric-powered factory that produces batteries (that go) into Bobcats that are recycled.” This all was in the model Samantha created at the National Association of Women in Construction’s building contest in Kansas City last year.

“It’s called Block-Kids, and there’s usually between 70 and 100 kids that do it,” Samantha said. “You get a little square that has some tinfoil, paper, string and Legos. You can build what you can in 45 minutes.”

Samantha ended up winning the grand prize at the Kansas City competition after the judges there were impressed with her green twist on the project.

She didn’t stop winning.

“And then I went on to the regional, and I won that,” she explained. “And then I went on to the national, and I won that.”

Samantha travels to Orlando, Fla., today as part of her prize awards. She will speak to the Construction Innovation Forum about her model and also will spend a day with her dad at Disney World’s Magic Kingdom.

She credits her vegan upbringing and environmentally conscious parents for her project’s idea.

“One of the ethics we’ve really raised our kids with is trying to figure out not only how to live lightly on the Earth,” said JoAnn Farb, Samantha’s mom, “but how do you do something (that) really gives back to the community and the world and how it helps to make it a better place.”

Samantha summed up all the excitement from her awards with one word: “Cool.”