<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/2026-07-21/magazine/fall-2020/engineering-student-designs-shirt-company.html" dsn="news"><pubDate/><title>Engineering Student Designs a Shirt Company</title><excerpt>Growing up, Mark Szekrenyi ’23 fell in love with Hawaiian sea turtles while snorkeling during family vacations. “Their peaceful majesty created a lasting bond with me,” he says. On his last visit to Hawaii several years ago, he learned just how endangered the creatures are. In the last two decades, the population of green sea turtles, or honu, has increased from 35 nesting females in 1973 to nearly 800. However, the hawksbill sea turtle, or Honu’ea, is critically endangered with fewer than 100 nesting females in Hawaii.</excerpt><author/><image>
            
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