Seventh Grader Wins Science Award for Mussel Project

From May, 1995 (Update #24)

MENOMINEE FALLS, Wis. - Michelle Matusin, a seventh grader at St. Anthony's Grade School, won an all-expenses paid trip in June to the National Ecology Fair in Washington, D.C., for her science project, "How Zebra Mussels Affect Water Quality." The award includes travel expenses for one of her parents and a school science teacher, along with $1,000 for her school to spend on science education. Matusin credits Sea Grant for helping provide a great deal of the information she used in preparing the project. Not one to rest on her laurels, Michelle is also working on a related project for the 4-H Naturespace Program with her brother Tony and fifth grader, Jim Guardalabene. Their project will be displayed at the Waukesha County Fair in July.

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The Zebra Mussel Update was a 4- to 8-page quarterly national newsletter published by the University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute from May 1990 through May 1997. The ZMU documented the spread of the zebra mussel -- an exotic nuisance mussel -- through North America's freshwater environments, especially the Great Lakes, and on efforts to control it.