On Tuesday, February 14th, four Middle School students (Owen Alter, Aiden Bieser, Emily Hamlin, Yaziel Sanchez Manriquez) attended a Science Immersion Day at UW-Madison at the Genetics Biotechnology Center coordinated by Southern Lakes Advanced Learners Network . The students were able to attend the following sessions:
- BIOTECHNOLOGY: Alien Blood Electrophoresis
- ENERGY: The Carbon Cycle & Us
- GEOLOGY: Reading a Soil Core with Geologists
- PHYSICS: Ingersoll Physics Museum
- PHYSICS: Albedo and the Physics of Climate Change
- Q&A Session and Mini-Campus Tour
This event is designed for high ability 7th and 8th grade students who love science to attend a college campus for a day. By exposing them to college opportunities, science labs and chances to talk with professors and students, these students will have a better understanding of the courses they should take in middle school and high school to set themselves up for college STEM majors.