Larkin senior takes 3rd place in WYSE competition
Lynn Vega, a senior at Larkin High School, took third place at the Worldwide Youth in Science and Engineering competition Feb. 5 at Elgin Community College.
Seventy students from five different high schools competed in such fields as chemistry, biology, English, math, engineering, and physics. Lynn competed in the engineering division. She is a Project Lead The Way student who has completed three engineering courses at Larkin High School.
WYSE is a statewide competition sponsored by University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana.
Larkin brought a team of 14 students who have been preparing for this competition for several months.
The team is coached by Diane Kriescher, Larkin's engineering teacher.
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