Valentyn Frechka was a high school student living in rural Ukraine when he began a science project to turn fallen leaves from trees and plants into paper.

This project’s technological building blocks will contribute to the deployment of a matured conduction welding solution to improve aerospace-grade TPC assembly.

"First, you take your paper and cut it at a slant," Lufkin Daily News advertising director Peggy Rains explained. "Then you ...