Both Payton and Kiona intend to be the first in their families to attend college.

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Payton, Kiona, and their Northeast High School classmates received a 2012 InvenTeam grant from the Lemelson-MIT Program, which supported their development of the innovative design.

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Teens design pedal-powered filtration system: High-schoolers Payton Karr and Kiona Elliot , from Oakland Park, Florida , led a team of inventors who designed a collapsible, transportable, bicycle-powered emergency water-sanitation station that filters E. coli and other harmful pathogens from contaminated water.

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