We are all aware with the current stars and stripes. The US flag, with its 50-star design was created a little way before the necessity of having 50 stars were needed to represent the country. Call it coincidence or just mystical, the accounts to its creation are nevertheless a noteworthy read.
The first design of the 50-star American flag, according to many accounts is credited to a young 17-year old sophomore from Ohio. It was the year 1958, a few years before Alaska and Hawaii were still to be included in the United States and the country still having an official 48-state count.
With just a simple assignment in high school given by their teacher Mr. Stan Pratt, the 50-star flag was the brainchild of one of the students named Robert Heft, who would be then creating the design for the current 50-star American flag. What is even more amazing is that the assignment was nothing about making a flag or something like it. The project was a freeform delegation by their teacher. While the other students were busy trying to create their masterpieces, Robert Heft already had the idea implanted in his mind for creation.
So he used the flag that his parents had – a 48-star flag design. He proceeded to cut the layout compartments apart and set them to be laid out so as to allow the arrangement of the stars accommodate two new stars, while maintaining the closest organization possible with the original. He hand sewn them together, submitted the first 50-star American flag, and the rest is history.