PBS’s ‘Easter Island Origins’ explores surprising genetic research to help tell the story of the Rapa Nui people

Five giant stone heads characteristic to Rapa Nui standing in a row with blue sky in the background

Ishaan Bansal, a second-year computer science and engineering student at UC Santa Cruz, won first place in the Interactive Media track at HackMIT, an annual student-run hackathon held in the fall at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.