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Tomorrow’s Einsteins are playing in the key of G(enius)
By Craig and Marc Kielburger
November 4, 2013
Did you know that you can make a flashlight out of a piano? Ok, we’re mostly joking. You probably can’t make a working flashlight from a piano. But perhaps you can make a young genius with a piano, and that genius can invent a new flashlight that doesn’t need batteries.

Ann Makosinski is the new star of Victoria, B.C. The 15-year-old captured headlines when she captured one of the top prizes at the 2013 Google Science Fair. Ann invented the “hollow flashlight”—an LED flashlight that uses the heat of your hand to generate power, enabling it to shine without batteries.

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