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| Erin King, AK4JG (center), receiving the 2012 Newsline Young Ham of the Year award at the Huntsville Hamfest. Also pictured (from left): Newsline's Don Wilbanks, AE5DW; CQ Editor Rich Moseson, W2VU; Bob Heil, K9EID, of Heil Sound, and Yaesu's Dennis Motschenbacher, K7BV. (K0NEB photo) |
Erin King, AK4JG, the 2012 Newsline Young Ham of the Year, has been named by TheBestSchools.org as one of "The World's 50 Smartest Teenagers" (see <http://bit.ly/1gelyRI>. King's amateur radio activities were mentioned prominently in her profile.
She is currently a sophomore at MIT and spent last summer working with Google's Project Loon, which, according to Newsline, is an experiment using high-altitude balloons to bring Internet access to remote locations. (CQ is a corporate co-sponsor of the Newsline Young Ham of the Year program.)