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Cellphone app to deal with her own chronic pain earns Sudbury teen national science fair honours

A Grade 12 student at Lockerby Composite School invented an app for her phone to help track and diagnose her pain. The invention just earned her a bronze medal at the Canada Wide Science Fair.
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The chronic pain app developed by Grade 12 Lockerby Composite student Mia Pandolfo. (Jason Turnbull/CBC )

Sudbury's Mia Pandolfo had a lot of pain after she injured her wrist playing soccer.

The Grade 12 student at Lockerby Composite School invented an app for her phone to help track and diagnose her pain. 

The invention just earned her a bronze medal at the Canada Wide Science Fair.

Pandolfo stopped by the CBC Sudbury radio studio to chat with Up North host Jason Turnbull. 

Up North5:49Chronic pain leads to national science fair bronze for Sudbury teen
Sudbury teen Mia Pandolfo invented an APP for her phone to help track and diagnose her own chronic pain. And now it's earned her national praise And she just picked up a Bro
            
Mia Pandolfo (Jason Turnbull/CBC )
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