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Grayson Zrelak: A Tragic Hero
The robot was made by a 5th grader in Orlando. His name Grayson Zrelak. Grayson is a survivor of Hodgkin’s lymphoma. The bot looks like a tiny mars rover. His tutor Megan also helped build the robot. Normally kids with Hodgkin’s lymphoma get held back that’s by Grayson has a tutor. Grayson uses robots to help him with math. Megan says it’s a good way to learn math. Meghan also says she wants the kids to see math as a good thing not a bad thing. Megan went to University of Central Florida. The new robot is supposed to follow a strip of tape on the floor but whenever there’s a right turn it just stops. Helping students catch up and understand math is her life goal. When Meghan started teaching her first student was an accident. The little just

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