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Car submerged in floodwaters

Florida middle schoolers win big for inventing device to stop flash floods

Source: The Washington Post

Two 6th graders from Florida won their school $100,000 by developing a piece of technology that will help prevent flash floods.

This entry was posted in Dealing with Disaster and tagged Current Events, People, Science & Nature, Technology on August 1, 2020 by Jessica Volkening-Hayes.

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