When Sophia Nicoloudes started eighth grade last summer, she said she did not think she would be involved with something like getting a bill passed to designate a state bee in Illinois.
“I still can’t believe how this is still so impactful and how crazy it is that we actually had a change, and we used our voice,” she said.
It all started when eighth grade science teacher at Lincoln Middle School Barb Bell heard that community members wanted Illinois to have a state bee…