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MIT senior and civil and environmental engineering major René García Franceschini Image: Ian MacLellan
By Gena Vitale
René García (MITES ’13; MITES teaching assistant) recently shared how he genuinely gives back to the MIT community and to his homeland of Puerto Rico.