Biology
This is a one-semester class taught by John Santos that covers the basics of biology. We caught, studied and photographed arthropods for the Fly on the Wall project (the photo of my shore crab, hemigrapsus oregonensis, is below). We even dissected a fetal pig at the end of the year, in order to learn about the systems of the body.
As an honors student, I also participated in a project and made several showcases. For my honors project, I redid the gel electrophoresis lab with Nate, John's assistant teacher. We had done the lab in class earlier in the year, and unfortunately nothing came of it. We got no results at all. For my honors project, we tested two variables (the running buffer and the dye stain) in an attempt to figure our what went wrong, but, again, we got no results. We can conclude from this that either we made additional mistakes in the second gel run (which is entirely possible), or that neither the buffer nor the stain were the problem in the first place. Unfortunately, this does not tell us what actually was wrong in the first place, which would have been really nice to know.
As an honors student, I also participated in a project and made several showcases. For my honors project, I redid the gel electrophoresis lab with Nate, John's assistant teacher. We had done the lab in class earlier in the year, and unfortunately nothing came of it. We got no results at all. For my honors project, we tested two variables (the running buffer and the dye stain) in an attempt to figure our what went wrong, but, again, we got no results. We can conclude from this that either we made additional mistakes in the second gel run (which is entirely possible), or that neither the buffer nor the stain were the problem in the first place. Unfortunately, this does not tell us what actually was wrong in the first place, which would have been really nice to know.
E. Coli Project
As a part of our studies of DNA and genetics, we took a harmless strain of E. coli bacteria and genetically engineered it to glow a fluorescent green under UV light. We then made our own petri dish art with the E. coli, and displayed the process and the final product art at exhibition.