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Carrying a torch

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Photo / Donna Coveney

Ten-year-old Adelina Huo solders a joint on a go-cart that she and three other girls built as part of an Experimental Studies group project. The girls were helped by Eric Smith (left) and another mechanical engineering senior at pika, an independent living group in Cambridge.

A version of this article appeared in MIT Tech Talk on August 29, 2001.

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