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Nikil Ragav wants to bring high-tech, hands-on learning to all students

Ragav is the 2020 President’s Innovation Prize recipient for inventXYZ, a program where high school students from all backgrounds across the country take on projects in which they develop 21st-century technology.
Nikil Ragav smiles and leans casually on a tree
Nikil Ragav, recipient of the 2020 President’s Innovation Prize for inventXYZ.

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    Griffin Pitt, right, works with two other student researchers to test the conductivity, total dissolved solids, salinity, and temperature of water below a sand dam in Kenya.

    (Image: Courtesy of Griffin Pitt)

    A world shaped by water and access

    Griffin Pitt’s upbringing made her passionate about water access and pollution, and Penn has given her the opportunity to explore these issues back home in North Carolina and abroad.

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