Cheney High School student Laura Mertens-Plowman's curiosity about a hand sanitizer manufacturer's claim eventually led her to an award at the second annual STEMposium science conference.
Cheney High School sophomore Laura Mertens-Plowman had a question, an ordinary question many of us often have about claims made by product manufacturers: Does that really work the way the label says it does?
In Mertens-Plowman's case, it was whether or not a brand of hand sanitizer really did kill 99.9 percent of bacteria after application, as the manufacturer said it did. So Mertens-Plowman, a high school science club member, set out to test that claim - and as a result ended up winning a Non-Scholarship Competition Superior Award blue ribbon at the second annual STEMposium conference, held M...
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