The South Effingham High School Science Club is collecting used crayons to benefit the Georgia Sea Turtle Center.

SEQUIM, Wash. (AP) — The seismometer is snugged in its hole and tamped over with dirt. Now it’s time for the stomp test.

Nineteen high school students from across South Carolina and one from Martinez, Georgia are spending the week at the University of South Carolina to learn about and get hands-on experience in the new field of bionanotechnology. It combines biology with nanotechnology, which is engineering things at a microscopic level.