It doesn't appear that the high school students are authors on the paper. Academic papers place authors at the top of the paper (some exceptions for e.g. huge c

It doesn't appear that the high school students are authors on the paper. Academic papers place authors at the top of the paper (some exceptions for e.g. huge collaborations with hundreds of authors) and acknowledgments at the end of the paper. It appears the article follows this pattern, so I don't find it at all "offensive" coming from an academic background; simply different conventions of where names appear, but they are listed.