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GENO’s first week was at St. Joseph High School.  A lot was learned on all sides: the teachers, the facilitating graduate students, and the high school students.  But one thing was a common denominator to all – interest.  Everyone was happy to learn and see good experiments with good results.  A reporter from the South Bend Tribune was also present to witness the event and write up an article that described our project and efforts of bringing GENO to local high schools.

One of the girls mentioned in the report, Ashleigh, was particularly interested in the science and asked very good, thought provoking scientific questions during class.  As she and I conversed, I found that she is interested in pursuing genetics and she had a lot of questions concerning college, graduate school, and career prospects.  The end result is that she is now connected to professors on campus with whose research Ashleigh would be interested.  Ashleigh now comes to the Goodson lab (my lab) once a week after school to participate in research with me and my labmates.  Ashleigh is showing incredible interest, potential, and insight — pretty soon I am going to give her a research project of her own!

It is wonderful to see us reach our goals.  We have brought current science into the high school classroom and have connected a student to the university and its research.

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Text below is from the Google Apps for Education Newsletter, February 2011:

Google Science Fair

At Google, the only thing we love as much as science is science education. We want to celebrate young scientific talent and engage students who might not yet be engaged with science. So, in partnership with CERN, the LEGO Group, National Geographic, and Scientific American we’ve created an exciting new global science competition, the Google Science Fair. Students all over the world who are between the ages of 13 and 18 are eligible to enter this competition and compete for prizes including once-in-a-lifetime experiences, internships and scholarships.

We’ll be accepting submissions from January 11 to April 4 2011, submitted electronically via a Google Site. Please note that if students at your school are unable to access Google Sites or share a Google Site outside your school, we recommend that they use a personal Google account to create and submit their project.

To learn more, visit google.com/sciencefair, and to request Google Science Fair materials for your classroom fill out this form, or download handouts and posters here.

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