Kansas State Department of Education Kansans Can Star Recognition Program

Award Winners: 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024

 HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION

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  GOLD

  • Ashland USD 220
  • Attica USD 511
  • Barnes USD 223
  • Basehor-Linwood USD 458
  • Blue Valley USD 229
  • Bucklin USD 459
  • Caldwell USD 360
  • Central Heights USD 288
  • Chapman USD 473
  • Chase County USD 284
  • Chetopa-St. Paul USD 505
  • Cheylin USD 103
  • Cimarron-Ensign USD 102
  • Clifton-Clyde USD 224
  • Comanche County USD 300
  • Crest USD 479
  • Cunningham USD 332
  • De Soto USD 232
  • Dexter USD 471
  • Dighton USD 482
  • Eureka USD 389
  • Fowler USD 225
  • Goessel USD 411
  • Greeley County USD 200
  • Hamilton USD 390
  • Hesston USD 460
  • Inman USD 448
  • Jefferson County North USD 339
  • Labette County USD 506
  • Lebo-Waverly USD 243
  • LeRoy-Gridley USD 245
  • Lincoln USD 298
  • Macksville USD 351
  • Madison-Virgil USD 386
  • Marmaton Valley USD 256
  • Marysville USD 364
  • Mission Valley USD 330
  • Nemaha Central USD 115
  • North Lyon County USD 251
  • Oakley USD 274
  • Osborne County USD 392
  • Pawnee Heights USD 496
  • Phillipsburg USD 325
  • Pleasanton USD 344
  • Prairie Hills USD 113
  • Quinter USD 293
  • Renwick USD 267
  • Republic County USD 109
  • Satanta USD 507
  • Scott County USD 466
  • Sedgwick USD 439
  • Shawnee Heights USD 450
  • Silver Lake USD 372
  • Skyline USD 438
  • South Haven USD 509
  • Southeast of Saline USD 306
  • Spearville USD 381
  • St. John-Hudson USD 350
  • Stafford USD 349
  • Trego County USD 208
  • Twin Valley USD 240
  • Udall USD 463
  • Uniontown USD 235
  • Vermillion USD 380
  • Wabaunsee USD 329
  • Waconda USD 272
  • Weskan USD 242
  • Wichita Catholic Diocese
  • Woodson USD 366

 

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  SILVER

  • Andover USD 385
  • Auburn-Washburn USD 437
  • Caney Valley USD 436
  • Cheney USD 268
  • Colby USD 315
  • Easton USD 449
  • Eudora USD 491
  • Fredonia USD 484
  • Frontenac USD 249
  • Girard USD 248
  • Goddard USD 265
  • Hiawatha USD 415
  • Hoisington USD 431
  • Ingalls USD 477
  • Kismet-Plains USD 483
  • Leoti USD 467
  • Morris County USD 417
  • Moundridge USD 423
  • Ness City USD 303
  • Rawlins County USD 105
  • Sterling USD 376
  • Victoria USD 432
  • Washington County USD 108
  • Wellington USD 353
  • Wellsville USD 289

 

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  BRONZE

  • Altoona-Midway USD 387
  • Beloit USD 273
  • Buhler USD 313
  • Cedar Vale USD 285
  • Cherokee USD 247
  • Coffeyville USD 445
  • Garnett USD 365
  • Great Bend USD 428
  • Holton USD 336
  • Hugoton USD 210
  • Iola USD 257
  • Jayhawk USD 346
  • Kansas City Catholic Diocese
  • Kaw Valley USD 321
  • Lansing USD 469
  • Liberal USD 480
  • Lyons USD 405
  • Maize USD 266
  • Neodesha USD 461
  • Newton USD 373
  • North Ottawa County USD 239
  • Northeast USD 246
  • Northern Valley USD 212
  • Osage City USD 420
  • Oskaloosa USD 341
  • Oswego USD 504
  • Parsons USD 503
  • Plainville USD 270
  • Pratt USD 382
  • Rock Hills USD 107
  • Rolla USD 217
  • Rural Vista USD 481
  • Russell County USD 407
  • Salina Catholic Diocese
  • Smith Center USD 237
  • Smoky Valley USD 400
  • Southern Lyon County USD 252
  • Valley Center USD 262

 

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  COPPER

  • Burlington USD 244
  • Chanute USD 413
  • Concordia USD 333
  • Ellinwood USD 355
  • Emporia USD 253
  • Garden City USD 457
  • Golden Plains USD 316
  • Hays USD 489
  • Kingman-Norwich USD 331
  • Pittsburg USD 250

 

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ACADEMICALLY PREPARED FOR POSTSECONDARY

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  GOLD

  • Branches Academy
  • Brookridge Day School

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  SILVER

  • Fort Leavenworth USD 207

 

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  BRONZE

  • Andover USD 385
  • Blue Valley USD 229
  • Cheney USD 268
  • De Soto USD 232
  • Hesston USD 460
  • Little River USD 444
  • Louisburg USD 416
  • Pawnee Heights USD 496
  • Riley County USD 378
  • Sterling USD 376
  • Valley Heights USD 498
  • Waconda USD 272
  • Wichita Catholic Diocese

 

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  COPPER

  • Ashland USD 220
  • Auburn-Washburn USD 437
  • Baldwin City USD 348
  • Barnes USD 223
  • Basehor-Linwood USD 458
  • Baxter Springs USD 508
  • Blue Valley USD 384
  • Caldwell USD 360
  • Caney Valley USD 436
  • Central Heights USD 288
  • Central Plains USD 112
  • Centre USD 397
  • Chaparral USD 361
  • Chapman USD 473
  • Cheylin USD 103
  • Circle USD 375
  • Clearwater USD 264
  • Comanche County USD 300
  • Concordia USD 333
  • Conway Springs USD 356
  • Cunningham USD 332
  • Dexter USD 471
  • Dighton USD 482
  • Dodge City Catholic Diocese
  • Doniphan West USD 111
  • Douglass USD 396
  • Durham-Hillsboro-Lehigh USD 410
  • Easton USD 449
  • Ellis USD 388
  • Ellsworth USD 327
  • Eudora USD 491
  • Flinthills USD 492
  • Fowler USD 225
  • Frontenac USD 249
  • Gardner Edgerton USD 231
  • Geary County USD 475
  • Girard USD 248
  • Goddard USD 265
  • Goessel USD 411
  • Halstead USD 440
  • Hays USD 489
  • Hodgeman County USD 227
  • Hoxie USD 412
  • Hugoton USD 210
  • Ingalls USD 477
  • Jayhawk USD 346
  • Jefferson County North USD 339
  • Kansas City Catholic Diocese
  • Kinsley-Offerle USD 347
  • Kiowa County USD 422
  • Labette County USD 506
  • Lansing USD 469
  • Lawrence USD 497
  • Lebo-Waverly USD 243
  • Leoti USD 467
  • Lincoln USD 298
  • Madison-Virgil USD 386
  • Maize USD 266
  • Manhattan-Ogden USD 383
  • Marion-Florence USD 408
  • Minneola USD 219
  • Montezuma USD 371
  • Morris County USD 417
  • Moundridge USD 423
  • Nemaha Central USD 115
  • Ness City USD 303
  • North Lyon County USD 251
  • Olathe USD 233
  • Osage City USD 420
  • Osborne County USD 392
  • Oxford USD 358
  • Paola USD 368
  • Paradise USD 399
  • Pike Valley USD 426
  • Piper-Kansas City USD 203
  • Prairie Hills USD 113
  • Pratt USD 382
  • Quinter USD 293
  • Renwick USD 267
  • Rock Creek USD 323
  • Rolla USD 217
  • Royal Valley USD 337
  • Salina Catholic Diocese
  • Seaman USD 345
  • Sedgwick USD 439
  • Shawnee Heights USD 450
  • Shawnee Mission USD 512
  • Silver Lake USD 372
  • Skyline USD 438
  • Smith Center USD 237
  • South Barber USD 255
  • Southeast of Saline USD 306
  • Southern Lyon County USD 252
  • Spearville USD 381
  • Spring Hill USD 230
  • Thunder Ridge USD 110
  • Twin Valley USD 240
  • Udall USD 463
  • Uniontown USD 235
  • Valley Center USD 262
  • Vermillion USD 380
  • Victoria USD 432
  • Wabaunsee USD 329
  • Wamego USD 320
  • Weskan USD 242
  • Wheatland USD 292
 
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 POSTSECONDARY SUCCESS

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  GOLD

  • Blue Valley USD 229
  • Buhler USD 313
  • Cheney USD 268
  • Clifton-Clyde USD 224
  • De Soto USD 232
  • Frontenac USD 249
  • Hesston USD 460
  • Ingalls USD 477
  • Inman USD 448
  • Kansas City Catholic Diocese
  • Nemaha Central USD 115
  • Rolla USD 217
  • Salina Catholic Diocese
  • Silver Lake USD 372
  • Southeast of Saline USD 306
  • Wichita Catholic Diocese

 

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  SILVER

  • Andover USD 385
  • Attica USD 511
  • Barnes USD 223
  • Colby USD 315
  • Doniphan West USD 111
  • Durham-Hillsboro-Lehigh USD 410
  • Ell-Saline USD 307
  • Erie-Galesburg USD 101
  • Goddard USD 265
  • Hamilton USD 390
  • Hays USD 489
  • Hoxie USD 412
  • Lebo-Waverly USD 243
  • Lyndon USD 421
  • Maize USD 266
  • Oakley USD 274
  • Pike Valley USD 426
  • Plainville USD 270
  • Prairie Hills USD 113
  • Pretty Prairie USD 311
  • Quinter USD 293
  • Renwick USD 267
  • Skyline USD 438
  • Smith Center USD 237
  • South Haven USD 509
  • Spearville USD 381
  • St. John-Hudson USD 350
  • Sterling USD 376
  • Twin Valley USD 240
  • Valley Falls USD 338
  • Vermillion USD 380
  • Victoria USD 432
  • Wheatland USD 292

 

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  BRONZE

  • Ashland USD 220
  • Auburn-Washburn USD 437
  • Basehor-Linwood USD 458
  • Beloit USD 273
  • Burlington USD 244
  • Chapman USD 473
  • Chase County USD 284
  • Chetopa-St. Paul USD 505
  • Cimarron-Ensign USD 102
  • Concordia USD 333
  • Crest USD 479
  • Cunningham USD 332
  • Eudora USD 491
  • Garnett USD 365
  • Goessel USD 411
  • Golden Plains USD 316
  • Halstead USD 440
  • Hoisington USD 431
  • Holcomb USD 363
  • Jefferson County North USD 339
  • Kinsley-Offerle USD 347
  • Labette County USD 506
  • Lansing USD 469
  • LeRoy-Gridley USD 245
  • Marion-Florence USD 408
  • Marysville USD 364
  • Moundridge USD 423
  • Ness City USD 303
  • Oberlin USD 294
  • Phillipsburg USD 325
  • Rawlins County USD 105
  • Republic County USD 109
  • Scott County USD 466
  • Smoky Valley USD 400
  • South Barber USD 255
  • Southern Lyon County USD 252
  • Stanton County USD 452
  • Trego County USD 208
  • Valley Center USD 262
  • Wabaunsee USD 329
  • Waconda USD 272
  • Wallace County USD 241
  • Washington County USD 108

 

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  COPPER

  • Ashland USD 220
  • Auburn-Washburn USD 437
  • Basehor-Linwood USD 458
  • Beloit USD 273
  • Burlington USD 244
  • Chapman USD 473
  • Chase County USD 284
  • Chetopa-St. Paul USD 505
  • Cimarron-Ensign USD 102
  • Concordia USD 333
  • Crest USD 479
  • Cunningham USD 332
  • Eudora USD 491
  • Garnett USD 365
  • Goessel USD 411
  • Golden Plains USD 316
  • Halstead USD 440
  • Hoisington USD 431
  • Holcomb USD 363
  • Jefferson County North USD 339
  • Kinsley-Offerle USD 347
  • Labette County USD 506
  • Lansing USD 469
  • LeRoy-Gridley USD 245
  • Marion-Florence USD 408
  • Marysville USD 364
  • Moundridge USD 423
  • Ness City USD 303
  • Oberlin USD 294
  • Phillipsburg USD 325
  • Rawlins County USD 105
  • Republic County USD 109
  • Scott County USD 466
  • Smoky Valley USD 400
  • South Barber USD 255
  • Southern Lyon County USD 252
  • Stanton County USD 452
  • Trego County USD 208
  • Valley Center USD 262
  • Wabaunsee USD 329
  • Waconda USD 272
  • Wallace County USD 241
  • Washington County USD 108

 

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SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL GROWTH

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  GOLD

  • Kansas City USD 500

 

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  SILVER

  • Baldwin City USD 348
  • Basehor-Linwood USD 458
  • Caney Valley USD 436
  • Chapman USD 473
  • Circle USD 375
  • Coffeyville USD 445
  • Colby USD 315
  • De Soto USD 232
  • Derby USD 260
  • Fairfield USD 310
  • Garden City USD 457
  • Hays USD 489
  • Hutchinson USD 308
  • Lawrence USD 497
  • Maize USD 266
  • Marion-Florence USD 408
  • Oakley USD 274
  • Olathe USD 233
  • Parsons USD 503
  • Piper-Kansas City USD 203
  • Salina USD 305
  • Seaman USD 345
  • Southern Lyon County USD 252
  • Topeka USD 501
  • Wamego USD 320

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  BRONZE

  • Augusta USD 402
  • Barber County North USD 254
  • Blue Valley USD 229
  • Central Heights USD 288
  • Concordia USD 333
  • Dodge City USD 443
  • Fowler USD 225
  • Geary County USD 475
  • Hiawatha USD 415
  • Iola USD 257
  • Kaw Valley USD 321
  • Lansing USD 469
  • Leavenworth USD 453
  • Lyons USD 405
  • Madison-Virgil USD 386
  • Manhattan-Ogden USD 383
  • Mission Valley USD 330
  • Mulvane USD 263
  • Neodesha USD 461
  • Oxford USD 358
  • Prairie Hills USD 113
  • Rose Hill USD 394
  • Smoky Valley USD 400
  • Solomon USD 393
  • South Brown County USD 430
  • South Haven USD 509
  • Turner-Kansas City USD 202

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  COPPER

  • Abilene USD 435
  • Arkansas City USD 470
  • Baxter Springs USD 508
  • Buhler USD 313
  • Chaparral USD 361
  • Emporia USD 253
  • Golden Plains USD 316
  • Haven USD 312
  • Humboldt USD 258
  • Independence USD 446
  • Jayhawk USD 346
  • Liberal USD 480
  • McPherson USD 418
  • Moundridge USD 423
  • Perry USD 343
  • Shawnee Mission USD 512
  • St. Francis USD 297
  • Valley Falls USD 338
  • Western Plains USD 106

 

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KINDERGARTEN READINESS

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  BRONZE

  • Arkansas City USD 470
  • Basehor-Linwood USD 458
  • Buhler USD 313
  • Clay County USD 379
  • Coffeyville USD 445
  • Colby USD 315
  • Concordia USD 333
  • Fairfield USD 310
  • Fowler USD 225
  • Geary County USD 475
  • Girard USD 248
  • Goddard USD 265
  • Haven USD 312
  • Hays USD 489
  • Haysville USD 261
  • Hoxie USD 412
  • Hutchinson USD 308
  • Kaw Valley USD 321
  • Leavenworth USD 453
  • Mission Valley USD 330
  • Norton USD 211
  • Oakley USD 274
  • Perry USD 343
  • Piper-Kansas City USD 203
  • Salina USD 305
  • Seaman USD 345
  • Southern Lyon County USD 252
  • Turner-Kansas City USD 202
  • Ulysses USD 214
  • Wamego USD 320
  • Wichita USD 259

 

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  COPPER

  • Caney Valley USD 436
  • Chapman USD 473
  • Durham-Hillsboro-Lehigh USD 410
  • Fort Larned USD 495
  • Fredonia USD 484
  • Golden Plains USD 316
  • Iola USD 257
  • Liberal USD 480
  • Lyons USD 405
  • Moundridge USD 423
  • Neodesha USD 461
  • Newton USD 373
  • North Jackson USD 335
  • Pretty Prairie USD 311
  • Quinter USD 293
  • Riverside USD 114
  • Rock Creek USD 323
  • South Barber USD 255
  • St. Francis USD 297
  • Wellsville USD 289
  • Wheatland USD 292

 

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 INDIVIDUAL PLAN OF STUDY

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  GOLD

  • Piper-Kansas City USD 203

 

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 SILVER

  • Beloit USD 273
  • De Soto USD 232
  • Nemaha Central USD 115
  • Pratt USD 382
     

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  BRONZE

  • Atchison USD 409
  • Basehor-Linwood USD 458
  • Bucklin USD 459
  • Burlington USD 244
  • Clifton-Clyde USD 224
  • Colby USD 315
  • Concordia USD 333
  • Derby USD 260
  • Geary County USD 475
  • Herington USD 487
  • Hutchinson USD 308
  • Lyons USD 405
  • Neodesha USD 461
  • Oakley USD 274
  • Parsons USD 503
  • Prairie Hills USD 113
  • Smoky Valley USD 400
  • Southern Lyon County USD 252
  • Wamego USD 320
  • Wellsville USD 289

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 COPPER

  • Caldwell USD 360
  • Cheney USD 268
  • Chetopa-St. Paul USD 505
  • Circle USD 375
  • Clay County USD 379
  • Comanche County USD 300
  • Garden City USD 457
  • Hiawatha USD 415
  • Kansas City USD 500
  • Kaw Valley USD 321
  • Madison-Virgil USD 386
  • Maize USD 266
  • Mission Valley USD 330
  • Mulvane USD 263
  • Oxford USD 358
  • Pittsburg USD 250
  • Salina USD 305
  • Seaman USD 345
  • South Barber USD 255
  • Topeka USD 501
  • Valley Center USD 262
  • Valley Falls USD 338
  • Wichita USD 259

 

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 CIVIC ENGAGEMENT

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  GOLD

 

  • Southeast of Saline USD 306
  • Southern Lyon County USD 252

 

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SILVER

  • Geary County USD 475

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  BRONZE
 

  • Atchison County USD 377
  • Baldwin City USD 348
  • Central Heights USD 288
  • Cimarron-Ensign USD 102
  • Derby USD 260
  • Fredonia USD 484
  • Grinnell USD 291
  • Lyons USD 405
  • Mission Valley USD 330
  • North Lyon County USD 251
  • Quinter USD 293
  • South Barber USD 255
  • Winfield USD 465

 

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  COPPER

 

  • Basehor-Linwood USD 458
  • Concordia USD 333
  • Ellsworth USD 327
  • Garden City USD 457
  • Halstead USD 440
  • Seaman USD 345
  • Spring Hill USD 230
  • Valley Heights USD 498
 
 
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Commissioner's star COMMISSIONER'S AWARD

 

  • Ashland USD 220
  • Barnes USD 223
  • Cedar Vale USD 285
  • Colby USD 315
  • Cunningham USD 332
  • Easton USD 449
  • Fredonia USD 484
  • Garnett USD 365
  • Girard USD 248
  • Hays USD 489
  • Hesston USD 460
  • Holcomb USD 363
  • Independence USD 446
  • Inman USD 448
  • Jayhawk USD 346
  • Kinsley-Offerle USD 347
  • Lincoln USD 298
  • Lyndon USD 421
  • Madison-Virgil USD 386
  • Meade USD 226
  • Nemaha Central USD 115
  • Ness City USD 303
  • Oakley USD 274
  • Osage City USD 420
  • Osborne County USD 392
  • Prairie Hills USD 113
  • Pratt USD 382
  • Pretty Prairie USD 311
  • Quinter USD 293
  • Republic County USD 109
  • Rock Hills USD 107
  • Salina Catholic Diocese
  • Silver Lake USD 372
  • South Barber USD 255
  • Southeast of Saline USD 306
  • Southern Lyon County USD 252
  • Stanton County USD 452
  • Sterling USD 376
  • Trego County USD 208
  • Vermillion USD 380
  • Washington County USD 108
  • Wheatland USD 292
  • Wichita Catholic Diocese
  • Woodson USD 366

 

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Commissioner's star COMMISSIONER'S AWARD WITH HONORS

 

  • Attica USD 511
  • Blue Valley USD 229
  • Buhler USD 313
  • Caney Valley USD 436
  • Chanute USD 413
  • Chetopa-St. Paul USD 505
  • Clifton-Clyde USD 224
  • Crest USD 479
  • Durham-Hillsboro-Lehigh USD 410
  • Golden Plains USD 316
  • Greeley County USD 200
  • Hamilton USD 390
  • Hoisington USD 431
  • Hoxie USD 412
  • Ingalls USD 477
  • Iola USD 257
  • Kansas City Catholic Diocese
  • Labette County USD 506
  • LaCrosse USD 395
  • Lebo-Waverly USD 243
  • LeRoy-Gridley USD 245
  • Marion-Florence USD 408
  • Rawlins County USD 105
  • Rolla USD 217
  • Satanta USD 507
  • Skyline USD 438
  • Smith Center USD 237
  • South Haven USD 509
  • Thunder Ridge USD 110
  • Twin Valley USD 240
  • Valley Falls USD 338
  • Waconda USD 272

 

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Commissioner's star COMMISSIONER'S AWARD WITH
HIGHEST DISTINCTION

 

  • Cheney USD 268
  • Erie-Galesburg USD 101
  • Fairfield USD 310
  • Frontenac USD 249
  • Pike Valley USD 426
  • Plainville USD 270
  • St. John-Hudson USD 350

 

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