The Mercury News – Joe Rodriguez
“They sure don’t teach science in fourth and fifth grades like they used to, at least not at Washington Elementary near downtown San Jose. Damaris Triana and two other kids had their assignment: Build a flying contraption for Ant-Man to travel six feet and land safely — and do it in 20 minutes. All they had to work with were a coffee filter, paper plate, string, two rubber bands, paper clips and a bead. The bead was a stand-in for Ant-Man, a superhero. Almost every fourth- and fifth-grader in the country knows about him.”(more)