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Most 12-year-olds love playing video games – Thomas Suarez taught himself how to make them. After developing iPhone apps like "Bustin Jeiber," a whack-a-mole game, he's now using his skills to help other kids become developers. (Filmed at TEDxManhattanBeach.)

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