All-Girl Team From Rockford Middle School Wins National STEM Competition

All-girl team from Rockford middle school wins national STEM competition

ROCKFORD, Ill. (WTVO) — A group of Rockford 6th graders has scored first place in the national Cal Ripken Sr. STEM Challenge. The all-girl Team Zip Zoom is from Marshall Middle School, including Victoria McCallister, Adalia Moyer, Zoe Fosse, Ophelila McClellan, and Lydia Ruffner. "We really got introduced to this challenge by our teacher, who, like, told us about it, and we were interested in it. So we were like, 'Let's give this a shot,'" said …

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