"A prize-winning pianist who intends to study microbiology." Read More
2005-October Midwest Living Champions In Education Contest
"KIDS CROWD AROUND a table to gape at tiny tornadoes whirling in a bottle. Kindergartners squeal in delight as they touch a worm's skin. Fourth- and fifth-graders studiously examine an overturned plant, an empty soda can and a shoe print–all evidence in the Case of the Missing Scissors." Read more here!
2006-November Thomas Jefferson MS (Indiana) SO Team
From the Wall Street Journal Online:
VALPARAISO, Ind. -- Richard Bender is holed up in his classroom nearly every day with 21 young assistants. They are building self-propelled vehicles and bottle rockets, and boning up on genetics and aquatic ecology. He swears outsiders to secrecy, as if this were "Cold War technology development," he says.... Read More
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