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"PinterestFacebookFor vets who are suffering, she&amp;#39;s a hero.\n__Katherine Bomkamp, 21\nWest Virginia University, Morgantown, W.Va.; political science major__\nThe daughter of an Air Force officer, Bomkamp was 16 when she met returning soldiers who&amp;#39;d lost limbs. &amp;quot;They&amp;#39;d sacrificed so much for my freedom,&amp;quot; she says. And she had an idea: Maybe heat could stop phantom pain, which affects about 80 percent of amputees. Using the wiring from heated hiking socks, she built her Pain Free Socket, an insert for prosthetics. The patented invention landed her in the National Gallery for America&amp;#39;s Young Inventors; she was also the then youngest person ever to speak at the Royal Society of Medicine&amp;#39;s Innovation Summit, held in London. Is she obsessed? &amp;quot;Well, I do have the reputation on campus as that military girl with the leg,&amp;#39;&amp;quot; she says.\nHer goal: To start producing her invention&amp;#8212;and to work at Google.\nHer tip: Don&amp;#39;t let anyone tell you no. &amp;quot;People wrote me off,&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;Luckily, I didn&amp;#39;t listen.&amp;quot;\n__See all of this year&amp;#39;s Top 10 College Women winners \u00BB __"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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