Evanston Kids Win National Science Competition

Watch out lice, soon the Lice-A-Nator could zap you into oblivion.

Three first-graders from Evanston’s Kingsley Elementary School recently earned second place in a national science competition with their idea, the Lice-A-Nator, a computerized hairbrush that detects and kills the annoying insects, Evanston Now reported.

Mackenzie Greco, Margaret Huerta and Nina Kaiser invented the Lice-A-Nator, which uses special bristles and processors to detect the presence of the creepy crawlers and kills them with tiny lasers.

The three were chosen from 5,206 teams or 15,963 students from across the U.S. and Canada, to win a second place in the kindergarten to third grade category of the Toshiba/NSTA ExploraVison program, the newspaper reported.

The Kingsley students previously won in the regional stage of the competition.

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