“They really challenge you,” said the serious-looking fourth-grader (code name: sportsgirl). Haylee wore a look of intense concentration as she sparred with classmates in a game that involved fitting odd shapes together. Logic puzzles flashed onto the computer screens, and a countdown clock started ticking.
Baltimore Sun eNewspaper Home Page Close MenuĪs her schoolmates dashed outside to play hula hoop and tag, Haylee King, 9, and two dozen other pupils filed into the Linthicum Elementary School computer lab, set down their lunch boxes and logged onto the Internet as “secret agents.”