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Luis de Florez, second from left, meets with student inventors. Original Caption: "Student inventors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who won the Luis de Florez Awards for Outstanding Ingenuity in Mechanical Engineering, receive congratulations from Admiral Luis de Florez, aviator and inventor, who completed his first engineering design project when a student at M.I.T. 51 years ago. Standing left to right are: Professor H. Guyford Stever, head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Admiral Luis de Florez, William Vachon (honorable mention), Juan H. Crawford (first prize), and David S. Nokes (honorable mention)."