Story URL: http://news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/news.aspx?id=177881
Story Retrieval Date: 6/18/2013 11:34:14 PM CST
The group - Shayla Hinson, Sydney Stahlmann, Mikaela Drewel, Jamie Foutch, and Kyler Waldo - go on to the national competition later this month in Washington, D.C. Engineer Ron Kadone and gifted education teacher Jennifer Hawkins worked with the students as they made their model, SimCity layout and essays.
The team of seventh graders beat out last year’s first place team, St. Paul of the Cross School in Park Ridge.