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Troubled By Flint Water Crisis, 11-Year-Old Girl Invents Lead-Detecting Device

Gitanjali Rao, 11, says she was appalled by the drinking water crisis in Flint, Mich. — so she designed a device to test for lead faster. She was named "America's Top Young Scientist" on Tuesday at the 3M Innovation Center in St. Paul, Minn. (Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge)
Gitanjali Rao, 11, says she was appalled by the drinking water crisis in Flint, Mich. — so she designed a device to test for lead faster. She was named "America's Top Young Scientist" on Tuesday at the 3M Innovation Center in St. Paul, Minn. (Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge)

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