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Building an autonomous robotic window cleaner for high-rise buildings while he was doing his HSC may have cost Oliver Nicholls a few ATAR points, but has led to him becoming the first Australian to win a major global science and engineering award.


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Building an autonomous robotic window cleaner for high-rise buildings while he was doing his HSC may have cost Oliver Nicholls a few ATAR points, but has led to him becoming the first Australian to win a major global science and engineering award.



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