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<p>"CALGARY, ALBERTA Just 19, student inventor and entrepreneur Eden Full is already making her mark.</p>
<p>Full, who attended high school in Calgary, recently received the Scotiabank EcoLiving Student Leadership Award for her invention, the SunSaluter.</p>
<p>“It was a very simple and inexpensive invention, yet it has a huge impact,” said Green Living chief executive and president Laurie Simmonds. “Increasing and optimizing energy by 40 per cent I mean, this is just remarkable that this young woman has done this.”</p>
<p>Designed to increase the efficiency of solar panels by orienting them to always be perpendicular to the sun’s rays, Full’s device is driven by simple bi-metallic strips that expand during the day and contract as they cool at night. . . </p>
<p>Just last month, she received a 20 Under 20 Thiel Fellowship, which will net her $100,000 in funding and mentorship from the Thiel Foundation’s network of entrepreneurs. The fellowship is funded by multimillionaire PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel and is designed to help innovative young entrepreneurs begin building high level science and technology companies. . . . (continued)</p>
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