Small school shows off big brains

Maybe the girls from Home Hi did make a minor spectacle of themselves at the regional Science Olympiad competition.

"We were screaming," said Sissela Rosenstock-Murav, a seventh-grader at the middle school in Urbana. "We were trying to keep our cool. But we really couldn't."

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