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Rost. Together with classmate Parker Black and seventh-grader, Will Ford, the boys began working on the project last summer as one of the teams in a STEM competition. (STEM is an acronym for “science, technology, engineering, mathematics.”) If they win, they each will receive a week at Disney World and a $2,000 scholarship. They are keeping the details of their project a little close to the vest because they may be aiming even higher than the competition. “They’re considering [patenting the process],” said Jeanette Rost, the group’s adviser and Derek’s mother. A teacher at Brook Elementary School, Mrs. Rost had learned of the competition while watching the Today Show during a snow day last year. Although she and the other parents encouraged the boys, they were the ones who took the idea and ran with it. When they were brainstorming ideas for a project, the boys were
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group of four Meadowbrook Middle School students put their heads together last year and over the course of a number of months developed an environmentally friendly process for cleaning contaminants from “fracking” water and recycling it. “We’re literally cleaning dirt,” said Mike Zuress, an eighth-grade student at the middle school. “It makes it so safe it turns it into soil,” said fellow eighth-grader, Derek
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Derek Rost, l, Will Ford, Mike Zuress and Parker Black relax at Meadowbrook Middle School where they developed a process to clean and recycle the water used in hydraulic fracturing.
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