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Rock Island teenager receives honors for conservation efforts

WVIK, Quad Cities NPR | By Brady Johnson
Published September 30, 2025 at 11:55 AM CDT
Nicolina Pappas
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Nicolina Pappas

WVIK News spoke with 14-year-old Nicolina Pappas about her nonprofit Nicolina Turtles Co, which she started when she was 8 years old. Recently, the Rock Island teenager was honored by Action for Nature and the Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes for her conservation work.

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Brady Johnson
Brady is a 2021 Augustana College graduate majoring in Multimedia Journalism-Mass Communication and Political Science. Over the last eight years, he has reported in central Illinois at various media outlets, including The Peoria Journal Star, WCBU Peoria Public Radio, Advanced Media Partners, and WGLT Bloomington-Normal's Public Media.
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