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Medford Student Attending NBC News Education Nation Summit

Saad Amer will join in conversation with students to discuss issues impacting them today.

Medford's Saad Amer, 18, is attending Sunday's NBC News Education Nation Summit in New York City on Sunday as one of five chosen from the Buick Achievers Scholarship Program.

As part of a Student Town Hall at the summit, Amer will join in conversation with students across the country to discus the challenges and opportunties impacting them today.

Amer just graduated Patchogue-Medford High School last May, and previously was part of a AP Science class that won a runner up spot in the Samsung Solve For Tomorrow Contest in 2011, in equipment.

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Amer is now in his freshman year at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA.


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