Molokai Student Earns Top Prize for Baseball Invention

By Catherine Cluett • Jul 8, 2013

Erik Svetin, an incoming Molokai High freshman added a row of stitches to a baseball to see if it would increase the distance it traveled. His invention took top honors for the state of Hawaii at the national Discovery Education 3M Youth Scientist Challenge.
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A Molokai 13-year-old entered his invention into a national competition and was named the Hawaii merit award winner. Catherine Cluett reports from The Molokai Dispatch. 

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