LOWELL Kaylin Oakes, a sophomore from Tyngsboro whose art is teaching people about the climate crisis, is the top winner in the state’s division of UMass Lowell’s Cool Science Contest. The competition asks K-12 students to create illustrations that depict the science behind extreme weather, then shares the artwork on transit buses to educate the public.
The colorful art about rising sea levels appearing on local MeVa buses is the work of Rayne Valentine, an East Boston sixth-grader, named as the top winner in the Massachusetts division of the annual Cool Science contest. Co-founded by UMass Lowell, the competition asks K-12 students to create illustrations that depict the science behind extreme […]
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