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In 6th grade, Joshua Wright was constantly forgetting things and responding slowly. Adults assumed he was being disrespectful — but he was just overwhelmed. That moment stuck with him.
Just like MSG, the food additive that was blamed for health problems for decades before science cleared its name, teenagers carry an unfair label. Most people assume the worst. MSG Teens exists to prove them wrong — one real story at a time.
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Gitanjali Rao: The Teen Who Detected Lead in Water
At 11 years old, she invented Tethys — a device to detect lead in drinking water — after learning about the Flint Water Crisis. She then built Kindly, an AI app to detect cyberbullying. TIME named her their first-ever Kid of the Year. Today she studies at MIT.
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