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Brothers Angel Benitez, 10, and Christian Benitez, 11, construct a robot Thursday, which they received for Christmas. Christian Benitez and his family are using GoFundMe to raise money for him to go to a summer camp because it made it easy for family members and friends to make donations. - photo by Erin O. Smith
Not every 11-year-old boy spends his time thinking about how to stop a dangerous oil spill. “I figured, why should you come up with something to manage (oil tank spills), when you can make sure it can’t happen?” said Christian Benitez, a fifth-grade student at Centennial Arts Academy in Gainesville. “I decided to come up with a tank with an engine for the oil tankers where they wouldn’t be using oil, they’d be using water.”