Sixth-graders earn award from EPA

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A group of Arlington sixth-graders who were disgusted by litter in a stream has won an award from the Environmental Protection Agency.

The mid-Atlantic region’s 2007 President’s Environmental Youth Award was given to the H-B Woodlawn Secondary Program students after they collected 443 items — computer monitors, televisions, cell phones and even a rock tumbler — in a single day last year, said Kathy Molina, the sixth-grade science teacher who oversaw the project.

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