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<span style="color:#000000;">''<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-size: larger;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-family: georgia, serif;">Engineering Entrepreneur Always Looking up for Inspiration</span></span>''</span>
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<br/><span style="color:#000033;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-size: small;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">Stephen Kender is a sophomore student at the University of Massachusetts Lowell; he is curre</span></span><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4; font-size: small;">ntly studying Plastics Engineering with a focus in Biomedical Engineering and Prosthetics. Stephen has kept himself busy during his first year in college. He is a member of the Pre-Law Society's Mock Trial team, has created a giving kindness initiative on his campus, and has won multiple awards at entrepreneurial competitions for his creation of </span></span>[http://www.lowellsun.com/todaysheadlines/ci_28763742/their-game-plan-armoring-athletes#ixzz3l9xUdvTy <span style="color:#000064;">KEnDERS Athletic Body Armor</span>]<span style="color:#000033;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4; font-size: small;">. An Eagle Scout, he frequently volunteers his time as an "Open Space Steward" in his hometown of Chelmsford, MA, keeping public property in good condition at no cost to the town.</span></span>
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<span style="color:#000033;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-size: small;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">In the past few years Stephen has had the privilege to work with many industry professionals in order to better his skills in engineering techniques and entrepreneurship. He was chosen to be a research intern at MIT Lincoln Laboratory twice, and while there gained valuable professional experience in machini</span></span></span> <span style="colorfont-family:#000033;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0pxverdana, geneva, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4; font-size: small;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-familycolor: verdanargb(0, geneva0, sans-serif51);">ng and fabrication.</span></span></span>
<span style="color:#000033;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-size: small;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">His experiences inside and outside the classroom have built him into the person he is today, with a heart for innovation and a mind for engineering. He put this enthusiasm into his invention, KEnDERS Athletic Body Armor, a novel sports equipment designed to withstand higher impacts and reduce the costs (and risks) of playing sports. In a few months he and his twin sisters raised almost $5,000 from university-sponsored competitions, and they are currently in the process of testing their prototypes.</span></span></span>