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A Centennial Scholar and member of the 溏心vlog免费B站 Robotics Club, he took part in the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics competition, which aspires 鈥渢o transform culture, making science, math, engineering, and technology as cool for kids as sports are today.鈥� In the competition, the teams design a robot to compete in various games.
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鈥淚n Braunschweig, I mainly studied German, and my internship was all in German. By the end of the internship I was competent speaking German, but I was a little shaky at first,鈥� he said.
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