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I'm Dr. Aviva Rong. Hi everybody and welcome to episode 90 of natural MD radio.

Here's a fact about me that probably won't surprise you, but I'm sure you don't know.

I was a Spelling Bee and Science Fair Geek.

I loved words, no surprise, and I loved natural science.

Anything to do with astronomy, ecology, biology, it had my name on it, to the point that, well, most of my science

exploration happened at my grandparents' house. I was born and raised in Housing Project, Department Complex in New York City,

but my mom's parents had a little prefab house in Long Island on a corner postage stamp piece of property but there was green and there were trees and there were rocks and my grandfather had a garage with a work bench and lots of tools and goggles.

So I was known to do things like go around.

From the time I was like kindergarten in first grade,

collect rocks, put on these goggles, go to the work bench, hammer them open, look what was inside

them, create these rock collections.

When I would ride my bicycle around my grandparents' neighborhood, my rule was that any flowers that were growing over a fence if they

were overhanging on the sidewalk were public property. So I collected flowers and I

would press them. My grandfather had a set of world book encyclopedias so I would press them and the poor books were filled with plant stains and I loved creating any kind of kind of just like a contraption or equipment or

machinery. So my first science fair contribution or entry which I actually won first place in my school Science

Fair was in first grade. I made an electromagnet. And each year my science exploration got a little

bit more elaborate, and each year it got more oriented toward biology because by fourth grade I was pretty sure I wanted to be a doctor.

So in sixth grade I entered the New York City Science Fair. Well I

entered in my school and I won my school and I went to the full New York City

Science Fair, the kind of Science Fair that's a really big deal and actually could lead to the

Westinghouse a famous science award and they didn't win first place they actually

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