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== Education == Page attended Okemos [[Montessori]] School (now called Montessori Radmoor) in [[Okemos, Michigan]], from ages two to seven (1975 to 1979). He attended [[East Lansing High School]], graduating in 1991. In summer school, he attended [[Interlochen Center for the Arts]] at [[Interlochen, Michigan]], playing flute but mainly saxophone for two summers. Page received a [[Bachelor of Science]] with a major in [[computer engineering]] with honors from the [[University of Michigan]] in 1995 and a [[Master of Science]] in [[computer science]] from [[Stanford University]] in 1998.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Brandt |first1=Richard L. |title=The Google Guys: Inside the Brilliant Minds of Google Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin |date=2009 |publisher=Portfolio}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Google co-founders support Stanford's NYC bid |url=https://stanforddaily.com/2011/10/26/1051121/ |access-date=July 17, 2022 |agency=The Stanford Daily |publisher=The Stanford Daily Publishing Corporation |date=October 26, 2011 |archive-date=October 20, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221020134232/https://stanforddaily.com/2011/10/26/1051121/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Green |first1=Sara |title=Larry Page |date=2014 |publisher=Bellwether Media |isbn=9781612119557 |page=19}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Lowe|first=Janet|title=Google speaks: secrets of the world's greatest billionaire entrepreneurs, Sergey Brin and Larry Page|url=https://archive.org/details/googlespeakssecr0000lowe|url-access=registration| year= 2009| publisher= John Wiley & Sons|location=Hoboken, New Jersey|isbn=9780470398548}}</ref> While at the University of Michigan, Page created an [[inkjet printer]] made of [[Lego]] bricks (literally a [[line plotter]]), after he thought it possible to print large posters cheaply with the use of inkjet cartridges—Page [[reverse-engineer]]ed the [[ink cartridge]] and built the [[electronics]] and [[mechanics]] to drive it.<ref name="achievement.org" /> Page served as the president of the Beta Epsilon chapter of the [[Eta Kappa Nu]] honor society,<ref name="hkn.org Eta Kappa Nu">{{cite web |title=HKN College Chapter Directory |url=http://www.hkn.org/admin/chapter.asp?ch=117 |publisher=[[Eta Kappa Nu]] |access-date=September 5, 2012 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130415003601/http://www.hkn.org/admin/chapter.asp?ch=117 |archive-date=April 15, 2013 |url-status=live }}</ref> and was a member of the [[1993 "Maize & Blue" University of Michigan Solar Car]] team.<ref>{{cite web|title=Larry Page |url=http://www.americarichest.com/larry-page/ |publisher=americarichest.com |access-date=June 18, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130605070812/http://www.americarichest.com/larry-page/ |archive-date=June 5, 2013 }}</ref> As an undergraduate at the University of Michigan, he proposed that the school replace its bus system with a [[Personal rapid transit|personal rapid-transit system]], which is essentially a driverless [[monorail]] with separate cars for every passenger.<ref name="Car" /> He also developed a business plan for a company that would use software to build a [[music synthesizer]] during this time.<ref name="fortune.com">{{cite web|last=Helft|first=Miguel|date=November 18, 2014|title=How music education influenced Google CEO Larry Page|url=http://fortune.com/2014/11/18/larry-page-music-education/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150208082808/http://fortune.com/2014/11/18/larry-page-music-education/|archive-date=February 8, 2015|access-date=February 8, 2015|work=Fortune}}</ref>
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