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Students build a playground for a Costa Rican community
September 23, 2024
BLACKSBURG, Virginia, Sept. 23 -- Virginia Tech issued the following news:

On a rainy April day, a group of Virginia Tech students outside their Bishop-Favrao Hall classroom used rudimentary math calculations and traditional survey techniques to envision a playground that would bring joy to primary school students in a Costa Rican community 3,500 miles away.

From classrooms filled with new technologies and cutting-edge research tools, these students were learning how t . . .

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