San Diego
Gompers Secondary School students have raised the $17,000 needed to send two teams to the national Science Olympiad in Lansing, Mich., on May 16 and 17.
The 36 students won the right to represent California in a state competition last month by outdistancing other Southern California schools in events such as building toothpick bridges and identifying minerals.
Students, teachers and parents raised the travel funds, primarily from private and corporate donors, in a little more than three weeks.
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