Profile

• Time Zone

  Eastern

  
  
• Organization

  Mountain Empire Community College

  
  
• Role

  Scientist Mentor: I will mentor teams of students online

  
  
• Research Interests (300 words)

  I study Queen Anne's lace, or wild carrot, genetics. I use this species to study mitochondrial dynamics within the plant and from generation to generation

  
  
• Profile Question 1

  What is best about being a scientist?

  
  
• Answer the question you selected for profile question 1 here (300 words):

  Science is great in that you can ask questions, design ways to answer those questions. The best part of being a scientist is when a series of questions is answered and you get to tell a cool story about what you learned.

  
  
• Profile Question 2

  When and why did you decide to go into a science career?

  
  
• Answer the question you selected for profile question 2 here (300 words):

  I began school as a nursing student, but when I took Human Anatomy and Physiology I realized that I loved biology, rather than taking care of people, I wanted to discover cool things about living things.

  
  
• Profile Question 3

  Can you describe your attitude toward science when you were in high school?

  
  
• Answer the question you selected for profile question 3 here (300 words):

  I loved science in high school. I took Biology II as a senior elective because I loved it so much. That class was cool because half of it was Zoology and half was Botany. I learned some really great things in that class, and my teach was pretty amazing too!

  
  
• Availability

  I am currently available for mentoring, please send me team match invitations

  
  
• Capacity: How many teams at a time are you comfortable working with?

  2

  
  

Recent Posts

6a2 Planting Peeaz Adam J Ramsey Apr 15 at 02:52pm

I will admit - I still get nervous when I'm about to present an experiment! But great job; I'm glad you all had fun with this. 

6a2 Planting Peeaz Adam J Ramsey Apr 15 at 02:51pm

I did have fun working with you! You all did a great job!

6a2 Planting Peeaz Adam J Ramsey Apr 15 at 02:50pm

I did enjoy working with you! Great job on your experiment. And excellent idea about using different types of seeds next time - seeds of different species like different temperatures, so I'm sure you would find something new!