Ellis Meng is working hard to save people’s sight using a method that gets away from painful, risky injections.

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BEST (Boosting Engineering, Science and Technology) is a middle through high school robotics competition whose mission is to inspire students to pursue careers fields. BEST Inc. itself is a non-profit, all-volunteer organization that licenses the annual competition to sites (“hubs”) around the U.S. Twenty-four colleges and universities in addition to 12 independent groups operate BEST hubs in their communities/regions.

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Pressing “snooze” in the morning a little too often? No worries — to the rescue is Gauri Nanda with her “Clocky.” How it works: If you hit “snooze,” the alarm clock jumps off your nightstand and lands on its wheels, beeping the whole time. Then it’s time to play hide-and-seek. The gadget rolls, bumps into things, backs up, and eventually stops. When the clock rings again, the sleepy owner has to walk around and find it to turn it off. Nanda invented the alarm clock for herself while she was studying design at MIT’s Media Lab.

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The Dynamic Tower will be the world’s first building in motion and it will have floors which rotate independently to create a building that constantly changes shape. The building also doubles as a power generator: wind turbines on every floor will provide power.

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Electrical engineer and guitarist Ben Verellen designs and builds customized, powerful amplifiers for bands. Here’s a video of him demonstrating one of his amps.

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