U.S. Students Headed To Hungary For International Biology Olympiad07:01

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Next week, four U.S. high school students will travel to Szeged, Hungary, to compete in the world's biggest biology competition for secondary school students. Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson speaks with Henry Shen, a senior at Oak Ridge High School in Tennessee who is one of the U.S. competitors, and to Joann DiGennaro, president of the Center for Excellence in Education, which runs the USA Biology Olympiad.