<p>Representatives with Clariant Oil and Mining Services presented a special group of Conroe ISD students and a Knox Junior High School teacher with a $5,000 STEM Grant as part of a new initiative designed to reward local science and robotics teams.</p><p>Katrina Meng, eighth-grade science teacher at Knox Junior High School and robotics team coach, and seven CISD students from both Knox and Wilkerson Intermediate School demonstrated the group's FIRST LEGO League project. The students included Hayden Meng, Kailynn Fong, Connor Brown, Stephanie Du, Alexy Skoutnev, Ben Scarborough and Amy Chang.</p><p>As part of this year's theme for the FIRST LEGO League competition, students were required to select a natural disaster and focus on a specific community and provide an innovative solution to help people during their chosen disaster, Meng said. The group selected earthquakes in San Francisco and researched toads that respond to the movement of plate tectonics and formulated a model of a research facility.</p><p>Paul Gould, head of global marketing and application development for mining solutions at Clariant, said his company began the grant program after the organization's global facilities moved into The Woodlands to Black Forest Technology Park in September.</p><p><a href="http://www.yourhoustonnews.com/courier/news/knox-jr-high-teacher-robotics-team-win-stem-grant/article_01a020a5-5164-5ab1-8c9b-e41738334543.html">Keep reading...</a></p>