One hundred first- and second-graders at Josefa Ortiz de Dominguez Elementary School in Chicago, Illinois, won the top prize in the national Public Science Day contest in March. They studied the water cycle in their community. Now Juan Garcia, right, says he wants to be a scientist. Studying water? No-"dinosaur bones." See the school's winning website: www.chias.org/ipsd/2001

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April 20, 2001 World Report