Local teams set for Science Olympiad opening
By Jodi Heckel
Thursday April 24, 2008
CHAMPAIGN – Jo Ellen Machesky and Julie Mallare looked like the middle school version of CSI scientists earlier this week, with their lab coats, safety goggles and box full of equipment.
The Franklin Middle School sixth-graders were practicing their crime-busting skills, figuring out the identity of certain substances by looking at them under a magnifying glass and seeing how they react to water, vinegar and iodine. The "crime" they solve will be a scenario and clues given to them in the Illinois Science Olympiad state tournament this weekend on the University of Illinois campus.
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