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Figuring Out How Real Science Goes

Unfortunately the serial dilutions I performed were not nearly as diluted as they should have been to get a good colony count. If I had...

Yesterday I performed the serial dilution. There was significant growth in the initial broth cultures I prepared from all nine sample...

Today I was lucky enough to use the facilities at the University of Bridgeport. I worked alongside Isaac Macwan and some of his graduate...

This week I began gathering the material I would need to perform the second phase of the experiment. I had to order different cicada...

This week was the most difficult of Capstone 2. After multiple snow days and heat complications at my school I had to image lotus leaves...

This week I was subculture my bacteria that was previously contaminated. By regrowing the isolated colonies for two days I was able to...

This week I began planning how I would get skin samples from the dogfish shark. After some research I realized it was pretty simple if I...

This week I used pre-poured agar to to plate my bacteria. I streaked each bacteria for isolation and did another lawn streak. I ended up...

This week our class focused on creating our presentations. The rubric Mrs.Veilette gave us helped me a lot to start the outline for the...

I believe I have improved on a few 21st century skills over the past few weeks. I think I have improved my communication skills. There...

After a previously losing time due to illness, I was finally able to return to school this week. I continued to plan my experiment. Most...

I am finally attending school regularly again. I was under the impression that all of the bacteria I needed was here, however we are...

This week was unproductive due to illness. I was out of school from Wednesday the 1st to Thursday the 8th. Lucky, I did not begin making...

This week Fairchild used a cross campus initiative to improve the projects we are working on. My Capstone 2 Class was paired up with a...

This was the first time we used task sheets and I thought it helped keep me focused to see everything I had to do in front of me....