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High School Tech Whiz Helps MIT Design Military Gadgets

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Meet Thomas Sohmers, the 15-year-old computer whiz who hacks defunct tablet computers for fun, collaborates on military technology concepts with MIT, and wants to start his own company.

Sohmers made a splash at MIT when he showed off a head-mounted display he’d made for a student he met through a school “buddy” program that matches interested high school kids with college mentors, according to the Boston Herald.

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