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Sunday, January 25, 2015

BLAST Lab, Gunpowder and Python continues ...



AP Biology - In AP Bio, our restriction enzyme / electrophoresis lab write-up is due.  Tomorrow we will have some students out to the state BETA conference.  We will be doing a review of labs we have done so far this year, prep up our lab using the BLAST website, and discuss Chapter 23 / Phylogeny. Colton pipetting above in our last lab.



Computer Programming II will meet three days next week, including Friday.  On Thursday we will start our project rotation using Arduinos, Raspberry Pi computers, AppInventor and Finch Robots.  We will also be working on python programming at the same time.  An arduino project from last week below:



Computer Programming I classes are transitioning to Microsoft Visual BASIC.  Some simple problems to start as we get use to working with a GUI (Graphical User Interface).

Selected Topics in Science is in the middle of their chemistry unit.  This week as part of balancing equations, student groups will make a small amount of gunpowder using their personal Daniel Boone recipe. I will ignite it (outside) ... carefully.  Luckily, most efforts end up being fire retardant!

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