• Activity Update! I recently did a video for the Duke Scholars Program on what I've been up to recently on campus and it turned out really nice!
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• Lab featured on Wired.com! I work in the Nicolelis Lab at Duke on the Walk Again Project and the lab was prominently featured on Wired.com today! You can see me celebrating with Dr. Nicolelis himself in this image. We're working with some amazing cutting-edge technology and we're working hard to make the World Cup Rio 2014 exoskeleton demo a reality!
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• I hosted a Hangout with CERN and the Google Science Fair! This morning I had a great time hosting a Google+ Hangout which featured the two CERN Researchers who announced the finding of the Higgs Boson! Joe Incandella and Fabiola Gianotti. There were also two schools from around the world in the Hangout as well as two Google Student Ambassadors. Joe even hung out underground from the CMS Experiment itself!
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• Google Internship! I just got an internship at Google!! I've always wanted to be a Googler and this summer I will be a software engineering intern at their Kirkland, Washington campus! Woohoo!!
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• Google [X] Hangout! I got the chance to participate in a live Google+ Hangout with Rich DeVaul (an engineer on the Google [X] team) and it was really interesting! I got to talk about what got me interested in science and discuss science education in general.
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• London 2012! The highlight of my travels this summer has to be the Olympic Game that I went to! I cheered on the USA women's indoor volleyball team to a win over the South Korean team and I was blown away by the talent and atmosphere. It was an incredible experience!
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• Duke in Oxford! This summer I took a class on Science Ethics at Oxford New College! Oxford has amazing history and an unbelievable library. England was a very excited place to explore and I had a great time with my fellow Duke classmates!
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• Summer Travel! This summer, I toured Turkey, Venice, England, and Sweden to stay with many different friends and have exciting adventures!
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• Thanks fellow Duke students! I was extremely honored to have been nominated to receive the Duke Class of 2015 Innovation Award at the end of my freshman year this April. This year, I worked to enhance the classroom experience at Duke through collaborative learning using grassroots Google Docs. The effort continues at http://bit.ly/DukeNotes
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• I met Martin Kratt! Martin Kratt, one of the brothers who made Zaboomafoo, came to Duke and I got to meet him! He's a duke alumnus and he's really cool. We got to talk a bit and he's got a new show that's doing great on TV called Wild Kratts!
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• Volunteer Teaching to Local Durham High School Students! I participated in Duke Splash last weekend and taught a class to 14 students over three sessions I called "What else can Google do for you?" It was a blast to help students learn about new technology!
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• White House Science Fair Having only been notified a week in advance, I was in disbelief to find myself at the White House this past week in the company of the President and many other distinguished guests and students!
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• Quidditch World Cup 2011 I'm the Keeper for the Duke University Quidditch Team and we just got back from an amazing competition at the 5th Annual IQA World Cup on Randall's Island New York! Website Link/ It was not only
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• Try one of my Android Apps!
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• Quest Article I am very excited to have been featured in the Coca-Cola magazine "Quest" which covers the activities of Coca-Cola Scholars. Check it out to learn about my latest activities. Also, check out the one right before mine from another Minnesota
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• Google Science Fair! I had an unbelievably fantastic time at the Googleplex this past week and a bunch of news outlets are coming out with photos from the public viewing period! Here's me with a founder of the internet: Vint Cerf!
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• Talent Magazine Article A cool article in talent magazine just came out and I'm in it! It's focused on motivation.
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• Gavin’s going to Google! I can't believe it! I've wanted the chance to visit the Google Headquarters in Mountainview, CA for years and now, as one of the first ever Google Global Science Fair Finalists , they are paying for me to fly out
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• Life to the Max I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Laura Goodrich from the local TV Show "Life to the Max" this week, which just aired at 11pm on Saturday the 21st. I watched the profile piece with my family and friends
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• Summer Internship at Medtronic! The week after ISEF was very busy as I had Prom, 3 Finals, 3 Interviews, and 2 AP tests all in 7-days. My interview at Medtronic was extremely exciting as I got a chance to explore the research labs in
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• Google Science Fair! While attending the International Science and Engineering Fair in Los Angeles, I found out that my submission to the first ever Google Global Online Science Fair had been selected to be one of the 60 semi-finalists! I had jumped at
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• LA ISEF 2011 I had an incredible adventure at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair this year and I made a lot of amazing friends. I met a couple Nobel Laureates, danced at Club Nokia in L.A. Live, went to Disneyland and
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• Coke Weekend I had a phenomenal time in Atlanta, GA for the 2011 Coke Scholars Weekend where I met my 250 coke brothers and sisters at the coke headquarters! We were busy and heres an except of things we did: - Met all
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• Angier B. Duke Merit Scholarship I am extremely honored to have been chosen to receive the Angier B. Duke Merit Scholarship from Duke University! This will allow me to go to Duke and pursue a
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• Hopkins, Minnetonka and Eden Prairie Sun Article! Hello, Hopkins, Minnetonka and Eden Prairie Sun readers, if you're interested in seeing a video of my turbine in action, click
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• Regional Science Fair Results On Friday and Saturday (Feb 25 & 26) I competed in the exciting Twin Cities Regional Science Fair! While I had to stand by my booth for 5 hours on Friday, I got to meet some nice fellow students and talk to a lot of judges (I’m guessing 14 adults total). On Saturday I was overjoyed by the award results which are listed here: Gavin Ovsak, Eden Prairie High School, The Creation and Testing of
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• Coca-Cola Ad So, I was pretty surprised to see an advertisement about the Coca-Cola Scholars during the Oscars the other night! I thought it would be pretty funny to show what happened when I got my scholarship bottle =D  
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• In The News Click to see a recording of my talk at TEDxYouth@TC!
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• College Admissions Status Here's a listing of all of the colleges I've applied to
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• Gavin and Dean Gavin with super inventor Dean L. Kamen!
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• National Gallery One of the coolest prizes I've won is this comic of my life (so far) which I won from being (1 of 5) inducted into the National Gallery of Young Inventors (2010).  
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