A senior at Westmoore High School Oklahoma has won a $100,000 scholarship which she hopes to use to attend either Stanford or the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  17-year old Mary Masterman won the competition by building a $300 spectrograph, a device used to identify characteristics of different kind of molecules, which can cost thousands of dollars.

Mary was victorious over some 1,700 students who entered.

Story via The New York Times 

Robin Harris who is Principal at the Flecther-Maynard Academy has done something few Principals would dare; she has extended the school day. Now when the Children of the Fletcher-Maynard Academy see the clock hit 2:00pm they still have another two hours of Maths an English to go!

It’s not all bad news for the kids. With extra hours comes new, interesting subjects such as cooking an forensics!