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Speaker 1: I have got monishi Ah Trapurah, Good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Good morning as well.

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Speaker 1: Wonderful to have you in the studio, Thank you so

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Speaker 1: It's great to have you all in here. And firstly,

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Speaker 2: Excited?

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Speaker 1: It's such a huge time of your life, you know,

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Speaker 2: Do you call it that.

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Speaker 5: And honestly, I think this is a great opportunity, and

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Speaker 4: So we do have a go fund me going along

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well tell do you tell you know what? I'm

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Speaker 1: So let me see what do we need to search up?

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Speaker 1: Fund International Science and Engineering Fair. So if you jump

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Speaker 1: because I reckon it's wonderful what you're doing. Now, before

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Speaker 3: So in total we're hoping to ways ofughly thirty thousand dollars.

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Speaker 3: It takes about ten thousand dollars to send one student

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Speaker 2: Like that before we go.

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Speaker 3: Yep. So and totally we were looking at our thirty

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Speaker 1: So we need some support. People get out there and

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Speaker 4: So what we're doing is we're improving the project. Ye

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Speaker 4: So we have run more experiments. So Saturday all day

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Speaker 1: How wonderful. So in your school holiday, as you three

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Speaker 5: A better exhausting, But I think we're all pumped up.

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Speaker 2: I think we're all excited. Honestly, it's been for us.

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Speaker 3: It's been lovely eight weeks since our final exams because

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Speaker 1: Well, it's been so wonderful to have the three of

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