Wehr's award a repeat

Odessa High School senior and Advanced Science Research Laboratory student Thorsen Wehr has again been selected to receive the Washington State Academy of Sciences Award. Since he had already participated in the American Junior Academy of Sciences Convention in Chicago last year, he declined this year’s invitation to the convention, so that another student might share the scientific opportunity that he had experienced.

The American Junior Academy of Sciences is America’s only honor research society for high school scientists, and Wehr earned his membership last winter. The honor comes from Dr....