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A 14-year-old took home $10,000 for his award-winning investigation into train derailments. Here's what he found.

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Gary Allen Montelongo , age 14 , won $ 10,000 for a science project on train derailment.

He built and coded an experiment on railroad suspension, then ran a model train on the tracks.

Last year there were 1,301 train derailments in the US , one of which caused a chemical spill in Ohio .

He hopes to become a mechanical engineer and wants to work at NASA or SpaceX.

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English

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