Crescenta Valley High School ROP Class

Internship Day - lots of work, lots of fun, lots of math.........and lots of pizza.

Getting ready: lab coats, goggles and name tags Pasadena Bioscience Incubator - Entrance to Internship Orientation Making 20X Sodium borate buffer with Arturo's direction Making the buffer for our gel electrophoresis. Math lesson from Russell Using the analytical balance More math - to make LB agar Solution making Tee hee Learning to use the pH meter Juan - what is this machine? Rotovap explanation Student holding a magnetic stirbar used to make a vortex Learning to use the fume hood Fume hood instruction pH meter lesson Making LB agar to pour into petri dishes Juan Romero discusses research Pizza - and downtime Learning to evaluate error in micropipettors pH meter lesson pH-ing the buffer Documenting the reagents Using the analytical balance Evaluating error in micropipettors by weight Using the analytical balance Weighing agarose for Amgen kits pH determination on buffer The pH of the 20X SB buffer should be 8.0 Using the hood shield Entering pipetted volumes into Excel spreadsheet Serenity after a long day Our product - LB agar for our transformation project Dr. John Moss of Oak Crest Institute - told us about a career in research Using the analytical balance Documenting reagents used for LB -amp arabinose agar. Russell and the Plate Makers More and more math Using the SOP for pouring plates using Serenity Great shirts Ms. Tuason and CVHS students CVHS Academy student