STEM School Highlands Ranch students use nature to address dangerous icy roads - Colorado Community Media

STEM School Highlands Ranch students use nature to address dangerous icy roads - Colorado Community Media

Taking inspiration from items such as mint leaves and cicadas, two students at STEM School Highlands Ranch are introducing a nature-based approach to address an ongoing nationwide problem: icy roads. Today’s solutions to improve icy roads include anti-icing solutions such as salt or sand. But seventh graders Aarna Varre and Anirudh Rao argue those solutions are ineffective, expensive and harm the environment.  Over the course of a year, Varre an…