...melting," says Flynn, describing the land that was defrosting around him.

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Flynn, 15-year-old from Waterford, Ontario, was in the midst of a two-week trip to the Arctic with the educational organization Students on Ice. He earned a spot on the trip after the board game he invented, Global Meltdown, won Canadian Geographic magazine's 2007 Polar Bound Contest. The aim of the game is to inform kids about climate change.

Flynn was part of a group of 70 students and 30 scientists who traveled by boat to the Arctic. There he saw polar bears and beluga whales. But the most shocking thing he saw was the melting landscape....

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