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Breaking Boundaries

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1
Episode
4
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Dr. Shawna Pandya, a 32-year-old physician and neuroscientist, trains as a citizen scientist astronaut with NASA-supported PoSSUM and tests a new spacesuit prototype for Final Frontier. In Toronto, 33-year-old Alexander Josephson leads Partisans, a design firm reinventing urban architecture with a young, nerd-cool team. Teen prodigy Maya Burhanpurkar, 17, makes breakthroughs in medicine and physics while helping develop a self-driving robotic wheelchair and inspiring girls in STEM. Caro Loutfi, 27, uses art and technology to make democracy “cool,” boosting millennial voter turnout through a five-city photo projection campaign.

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