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"She builds robots that explore the world&amp;amp;#8217;s farthest-flung places. Grace Young, 20 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass.; ocean engineering major Technically speaking, Young never graduated high school&amp;amp;#8212;she was accepted to MIT at 17. Her niche? Robotics, a subject she fell for as a little girl in her great-grandfather&amp;amp;#8217;s Ohio chocolate factory. &amp;amp;#8220;I watched the machines stir, melt, mold, and wrap chocolates,&amp;amp;#8221; says Young, who juggles up to seven classes a semester and spent last spring break volunteering at a girls&amp;amp;#8217; science school in the Congo. &amp;amp;#8220;My uncle was always tinkering with things, and I wanted to do it too.&amp;amp;#8221; Now she helps build marine robots that explore oceans; one mapped part of the underside of Antarctic sea ice. Her goal: To build &amp;amp;#8216;bots that help combat climate change, pollution, and overfishing. Her tip: She lives by this quote by Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, which she penciled on her bedroom wall: &amp;amp;#8220;Do something you&amp;amp;#8217;re not ready to do. In the worst case you&amp;amp;#8217;ll learn your limitations.&amp;amp;#8221; See all of this year&amp;amp;#8217;s Top 10 College Women winners &amp;amp;#187; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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