A year before that, a fifth grader from Michigan discovered an error at a Smithsonian exhibit that had gone undetected for 27 years.
"My dad doesn't want us to win because he's tired of coming to Huntingdon," said Leslee, a ninth grader from a town about 20 miles away.
Cornelia Bendel, a sixth grader from Framingham, Mass., had a similarly pressing question.
That's what happened in January when Amarria Johnson, a first grader from Chesterfield, Va., developed a severe allergic reaction.
MARSHALL REID, 12, a sixth grader from Sanford, N.C., has a know-it-all quality that can drive some teachers crazy.
The day after a sixth grader from Harlem drowned in the Atlantic Ocean on a class outing, a fifth-grade teacher in Brooklyn posted some rather impolitic comments about her own students on Facebook.
Dante Cano, a fifth grader from Marlboro, N.J., was watching a game the first weekend in October with his father, Jose – probably a Giants game, his mother, Laurie, said.
Kendall Jones, a seventh grader from Hamden Middle School, portrays him as an older child trying to learn to read.
Jacob Frederich, 9, a third grader from Pasadena, Md., center, listens to a re-enactor playing George Washington's confidant Col. David Humphreys.
"I'll bring my portable CD player when I go out looking for stuff," said Ryan, a sixth grader from Franklin Township who hopes to become a herpetologist.
