For example, a high school student who won a science fair made big money on Quirky for proposing a flexible power strip.

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There are so many options, and it's a mistake for a student to say, 'A big-name school is the only place for me.

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Sports bloggers in January began poking fun at Turner online from its 14-student high school to its nonprofit organization, "The Big Flat Community Grain Bin, " created to stem population decline.

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Accordingly, I pulled numbers for several of the top student fee recipients, both in terms of dollars and percentage, an SEC school, a Big Ten school and Cal-Berkeley because of their recent fundraising efforts to save five sports.

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