
#BugsR4Girls: How 8-year-old Sophia Spencer co-authored a scientific paper on bugs
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- Category: Tech & Science
- Published Friday, September 22, 2017
- CBC News

Sophia Spencer hated it when classmates taunted her for her love of insects, but seeing them kill her pet grasshoppers for fun was even worse.
Her first-grade peers couldn't understand what she found so fascinating about bugs of all sorts or why she'd devoted spare time to catching them, reading about them and generally carrying on like a budding entomologist.