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Christine Zaremba & the Nerd Herd

By now you've heard of the Nerd Herd, the team of four 12 to 14-year old St. Edmund's students who, this week, are headed from Brooklyn to the World Robotics Festival in Atlanta. With their motorized robot named Thingamajig, they won the championships here, and a spot alongside the Nation's best in Atlanta—but first they needed to raise the necessary funds to get there. After getting some press, vacuum inventor James Dyson stepped in to give them the monetary push they needed, but so did New York, and they ended up with an excess of $11,000!

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