Adrienne McColl, an 18-year-old student from San Pedro High School, was one of 17 students from 65 countries who captured "best of category" in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, at Los Angeles Convention Center. Her project consisted of finding the appropriate food for California spiny lobsters raised in captivity. Adrienne's lobsters were on a diet of larval fish and survived for nearly six months, which was longer than anyone else.
Adrienne also received a first place award in animal biology, $8000 and thanks to MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), she will also have the privilege to name an asteroid. Her hard work is also not going unnoticed by her supervisors at the San Pedro aquarium. Adrienne will mentor other young researchers at aquarium's aquatic nursery facility during the summer, a job that normally goes to a college student.
