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Levi Heckard, 17, attends Cedar Crest High School in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, and is interested in pursuing a career helping people with the latest technology related to creating artificial limbs and organs.

“We are currently working on a group project that is an artificial kidney filtration system,” he said. “Building more prosthetics to help people whose limbs are not functioning properly would help people get a second chance at life.”

Cecil Ekhelar, a 17-year-old student at Trinity Hall High School in Tinton Falls, New Jersey, said she wants to study biomedical engineering in college and is fascinated by the study of the brain.

They are among dozens of 11th- and 12th-g

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