Five exceptional students from across the Coachella Valley have won full-ride scholarships to attend prestigious universities across the United States from Caltech in Pasadena to MIT in Boston. They ...

Caltech and MIT have carried on a keen competition for years as top technological institutes, and a key element of the rivalry has been the trading of pranks, or “hacks,” as they’re sometimes called.

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