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    AJA CAPEL

    Nov 01, 2020 3 minutes
    by Rachel Kehoe text © 2020 by Rachel Kehoe

    Aja Capel is a roboticist. As a young child she developed a passion for taking things apart and coming up with new inventions. Her parents registered her in robotics camp at the Orpheum Children’s Science Museum in Champaign, Illinois, at the age of 4—before she could dismantle the house.

    She has been inventing, building, and experimenting ever since. By age 13, Aja had started four robotics teams, hosted

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