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