Science Night

                                 Left to right: Best Photobomber, Jonathan, Billy, Me, Harmon, Shawn

First of all, once we started out we all had to make sure we had brought everything. Once we had unboxed everything, we had to set it all up. We were pretty confident about our experiment since we went to Harmon's house to test it all out and fortunately we had no problems. Harmon, Shawn, and I had to go fill up trays of water for our experiment, Soap Boat Racing. Little did we know, the trays happened to be very wobbly and so we had to walk carefully and slowly so that the water did not spill. Thankfully, we managed to fill them up and make it back to our station without any problems. Once we finally got set up, we had to move our location since we were told it would have been a better location. We were told we were going to be given a signal telling us when the kids were about to show up, so we used the extra time to test our experiment to see if everything was in good shape. The first 10 minutes, we did not get any single participant, we were getting kinda worried. Thankfully, Eric from another group and I raced and when one of us won, my group loudly congratulated me and it brought participants to our experiment. We were now on track.

Out of nowhere, we started to gain a lot of participants. Jonathan and I were in charge of telling the kids what to do and set up the races, Shawn was making sure we had enough water, Billy had to cut out the boat shapes (since our scissors were sharp and we had to take safety precautions,) and Harmon was refilling the water trays. We had the kids choose their desired soap, boat, and place the soap onto the boat. When they were ready, they would each place their boat on the tray at the count of 3. We would then cheer for them, often a little bit too loud.

You could tell based on the kids faces, as well as the parents, that they were having a good time racing their boats. The parents would ask us the science behind the experiment, and we would all summarize the concept of surface tension and the effects of soap. There was one kid in particular that got very happy when he realized he had won. The overall atmosphere was really exciting and fun.

The event went on for 3 hours but it had felt like forever. Despite the hard work we all put in it, we all had fun. We were all given this opportunity to help out the community and teach elementary students about science as well as allowing them to have fun while doing it. This really was an honor and I am glad I was able to take part in it. After our group had cleaned up our station, we would go around to see other people's experiments to see what they had taught the kids. Every single experiment had seemed very interesting and I am glad the kids were able to participate in each one. Overall, this was a very fun experience and I hope to do something similar to this in the future.

H-Weezy 1000 population

1000 population Question

q2 = .40

q2 (homozygous recessive individuals) = .40  400/1000
q (frequency of recessive allele) = .63
p2 (homozygous dominant individuals) = .14  140/1000
p (frequency of dominant allele) = .37 
2pq (heterozygous individuals) = .46  460/1000 

First of all, the q2 is given and in this case, it is .40. Next, you are supposed to square root the q2 value and this will give you .63. After that, since q and p is always equal to 1, and q is .63, therefore p has to be .37. Furthermore, you square .37 and this will give you .14. To find the heterozygous individuals, there is actually different kinds of methods; the main one being 2(p2+q2). However, the method in which I happen to find easiest for me, would be to add the q2 and p2 values, then subtracting that sum to 100. So, in this case it would be .46. 

Worm Lab

This was the picture that was taken during the Worm lab. This is the close-up view of the worm through as seen through a microscope. My group and I were able to successfully snap a photo so that this image would be available.

This was the data we were able to collect during the lab. Personally, I think that sample A is the water substance, sample B is the depressant, and sample C is the stimulant. The reason why I think this is because A seems to have constant results.(20) While B, has the lowest amount out of all the three, and C has the highest. 

AP Biology Blog 3 Selfies

This was actually the very first selfie I took on my group hiking trip. It was pretty difficult to take a selfie and so I asked one of my friends to take it for me. We all struggled but we finally managed to take a picture. Shortly afterwards, a park ranger had told us to be careful for snakes since we were in the grass. We immediately left the grassy area and became more aware.

This was the first group selfie we took and we snapped a photo of a gymnosperm, or a pine cone in this case. I was actually scared to be the one to hold the pine cone because I feared there may be spiders inside and I did not want to get bit. Other than the fact of possible spiders, I held it awkwardly since the edges of the pine cone were really sharp.

I think this was one of the last selfies since we were all heading home. This selfie happened right after a rather funny experience and I remember it vividly. This is a picture of a ladybug that one of my group members were lucky to have caught it and safely placed it in a small container. Since the lid was open, I was nervous it was going to fly away right before I managed to take the photo.