Amber Merrill

Space Trivia Bowl "served as a celebration at the end of our history unit on the Space Race," sixth-grade teacher Amber Merrill said.

Alfred Alwin, a sixth-grader at Mill Creek Elementary School, recently learned that Pi "is irrational ... and well rounded, too."

Teacher Amber Merrill made "history seem more intriguing by putting students in the shoes of the people who lived it."