Rase is getting $25,000 to upgrade the school’s biology equipment, some of which dates back to the 1960s. She hopes the new technology inspires more students to study science.

To enter the Shell Science Lab Regional Challenge, K–12 science teachers located in select school districts near Shell USA Inc. assets were asked to describe their school’s current laboratory ...

For more precise measurements, students went inside a mobile STEM laboratory parked outside the school and picked up micropipettes, turkey-baster sized droppers which lab assistant Abdiel Alba ...