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Article: And a child shall lead them. (Joey Pate and Michael Schneider choose greenhouse effect as their science projects) (column)
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- American Forests
- Article date:
- November 1, 1989
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Sometimes youngsters see things more clearly than adults do. Last year, two seventh-graders from Montgomery School in Atlanta selected the greenhouse effect as their science project and came up with an award-winning report that lays out the issue with a thoroughness that would do a professional reporter proud.
Their project nabbed a first-place blue ribbon from their school and second place in huge DeKalb County's science fair. More important, Joey Pate and Michael Schneider (now 14 and 13 respectively and attending Marist High School) taught their classmates-and all of us-a valuable lesson about the greatest environmental challenge likely to face their ...