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Massachusetts ( WBZ ) -- A senior at a Massachusetts high school has turned her Girl Scout project into a potentially life-saving effort for young athletes in her community.

Siene Hesbach is a student athlete who recently moved to Maynard after spending three years in the Netherlands. After the move, she noticed that the town lacked publicly accessible automated external defibrillators (AEDs). They were available in schools and government buildings, but not near the athletic fields.

Sudden cardiac arrest is the leading cause of death in student athletes, according to the National Library of Medicine. Maynard schools only had one portable AED and there are several fields, all minutes apart from one another.

So she decided to help make a change for

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