7.24.23 – Vital Signs
In Vital Signs, the 7th and 8th grade students started out their week learning about heart rate and blood pressure, and the factors that may affect...
7.21.23 – Genetics: Nature or Nurture
After a week of hard work, exploration, and discovery, campers performed a protein purification process to isolate the GFP (green fluorescent protein) product from our bacterial transformation...
7.21.23 – Gold Medal STEM
If one were to really synthesize what the Olympic festivities are all about, it is possible to make the case that a vast majority of Olympic sporting events ultimately boils down to figuring out who has become the most supreme at...
7.21.23 – Engineering Explorations
It was off to the boat...
7.20.23 – Genetics: Nature or Nurture
Also, the campers continued their explorations of drosophila melanogaster – the common fruit fly (a widely-used model organism in biological s...
7.20.23 – Gold Medal STEM
Katniss & Hawkeye aren’t the only ones in town who know how to handle a bow & a...
7.20.23 – Engineering Explorations
Our engineers have been working hard the last two days to create a boat that floats and holds weight with a working...
7.19.23 – Genetics: Nature or Nurture
They say “time flies like an arrow and fruit flies like a banana.” Today, in one session our budding geneticists were able to make observations of different Drosophila melanogaster (fruit fly) genetic lineages and see how their behaviors co...
7.19.23 – Gold Medal STEM
Our Gold Medal engineers will be working hard all week long to build a model mechanical swimmer (from scratch) that can outperform all...
7.19.23 – Engineering Explorations
Halfway through our engineering extravaganza week, our enterprising engineers should be feeling very excited and proud as their Rube Goldberg projects are starting to take...
