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ANDREA DEROSIER: Hi there.

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My name's Andrea Derosier,
and I'm a Sloan fellow,

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as I mentioned earlier.

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And my pitch idea
is actually having

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to do with something
that I actually

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know something a
little bit about,

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that many high school or middle
schoolers also struggle with,

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and that is, having braces.

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I just recently
got my braces off,

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and I also worked for
a orthodontics company

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before I came here to MIT.

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So it's something that's both
near and dear to my heart,

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and also I think I've seen a
lot of high schoolers and middle

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schoolers struggle with
this whole process.

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I know I didn't
know a lot about it.

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So basically, that
would be my pitch,

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is to teach kids about what's
happening with their teeth,

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as they're having braces on.

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How the teeth move; how
osteoblasts and osteoclasts

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work, to deposit and dissolve
some of their bone, which

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is actually one of the
reasons why it hurts so much;

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and also why your
mouth gets dry.

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All those kinds of
scientific aspects

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is something that
these kids really

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deal with on a daily
basis during a very

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awkward time of their lives.

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So that's my mini-pitch.