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...
7.18.23 – Genetics: Nature or Nurture
After extracting our own DNA from our cheek cells yesterday, we performed a lab technique that makes thousands of copies of part of our genome (Polymerase Chain Reaction, or PCR) in order to have enough DNA to...
7.18.23 – Gold Medal STEM
We have a need for...
7.18.23 – Engineering Explorations
After getting “circuit certified” the previous day and learning about some of the key science and strategies needed to create working electrical circuits, today students were able to start ideating/brainstorming what they would like their b...
7.17.23 – Genetics: Nature or Nurture
Genetics has become a cutting-edge science, not only in the field of biology, but also because of the enormous social and medical reach of its...
7.17.23 – Gold Medal STEM
The summer Olympics include several types of cycling races – BMX, mountain bike, road, and t...
7.17.23 – Engineering Explorations
Our biomedical engineers have just arrived at Summer@IMSA and they are ready for a challenging...
7.14.23 – Vital Signs at MetroEast
It’s vital for doctors to help people with life-saving surgeries, and help them heal wounds from i...
7.14.23 – CSIMSA at MetroEast
After all of our CSIMSA investigators’ hard work this week, it is finally time to try and convict the guilty suspect who dognapped Fifi L...
7.14.23 – Makey Lab
Today our inventors finished their toy...
7.14.23 – CSIMSA
After all of our CSIMSA investigators’ hard work this week, it is finally time to try and convict the guilty suspect who dognapped Fifi L...
7.14.23 – Vital Signs
It’s vital for doctors to help people with life-saving surgeries, and help them heal wounds from i...
7.14.23 – Makey Lab
Today our inventors finished their toy...
7.14.23 – Avantor Integrated Science Program
Today was the last day of the Integrated Science...
7.13.23 – Vital Signs at MetroEast
Common summertime injuries that can happen to kids while they’re playing outside on play sets, running up hills, falling off bikes… Today our doctors dove into the study of orthopedics and learned how to identify and treat various types of...
7.13.23 – CSIMSA at MetroEast
In CSIMSA we had an exciting day doing DNA profiling of our suspects and DNA found at the crime...
7.13.23 – Makey Lab
Let’s light up the n...
7.13.23 – CSIMSA
In CSIMSA we had an exciting day doing DNA profiling of our suspects and DNA found at the crime...
7.13.23 – Vital Signs
Common summertime injuries that can happen to kids while they’re playing outside on play sets, running up hills, falling off bikes… Today our doctors dove into the study of orthopedics and learned how to identify and treat various types of...
7.13.23 – Makey Lab
Let’s light up the n...
7.13.23 – Avantor Integrated Science Program
This afternoon, students put their newfound knowledge about mixtures, substances dissolving and freezing point — to name a few of the topics they have explored this week — by making ice cream using liquid nitrogen that is just...
