While most student research projects end up in a storage bin in the attic, one that 8th graders at Naperville’s Lincoln Junior High worked on is now state law.
Lincoln’s students spearheaded the effort to make the big, fuzzy black and gold bumblebee the official Illinois state bee.
Barb Bell is a science teacher at Lincoln Jr. High. She designed a research project for the 8th grade class, where they worked together, making a case for one of the 10 most common bee species found in Illinois…