Of my ninth grade students who participated this semester, Leanne, Lily and Megan had the most sophisticated conversations with their mentor, Heidi, as they attempted to come up with an idea for an experiment. They are currently working out the specifics of an interesting study involving artificial selection of Brassica plants for expression of anthocyanin. Due to our research faculty experimenting with different scheduling patterns and groupings of freshman students that spanned class sections, Lily, Leanne and Megan had to work asynchronously to try and develop an idea worthy of investigation. They are still in the planning phases of this investigation, but I think that other teams might be interested to read parts of these preliminary conversations with their mentor, Heidi. -- Michael Roche, Teacher
Teacher: Michael T Roche
School Name: High Technology High School
Investigation Theme: Foundations of Genetics (traits, variation and environment in rapidly cycling Brassica)
Session: Fall 2018
Student Level(s): High School Students (Grades 9,10,11,12)