
Audrey Olson-Drake, a sixth-grader at Sartell Middle School, performs “Happy Birthday,” for Amy Jaeger and her son, Corbin Buersken, 5, of Sartell. Olson-Drake taught herself how to play the song on the ukulele in order to perform it for the school’s “Genius Hour” on May 19.

Safaa Suri, a sixth-grader at Sartell Middle School, shares her research project, “Save the Dolphins,” with Steve Drake and Nancy Olson of Sartell during “Genius Hour” at Sartell Middle School on May 19. Suri’s idea was one in which dolphins would withdraw from fishing boats dragging nets that project a sound frequency of 32,000 Hertz.