NEM+Research+Club

8-30-06 First meeting! 16 students showed up.

9-11-06 (lunch) Pizza Part during lunch 16 students

9-13-06 Colony Isolation with Baker's Yeast for technique practice 15 students

9-18-06 (lunch) Learning internet research techniques 16 students

9-27-06 Worked on internet research techniques (Wiley, synergy, pubmed, etc.) 4 students

10-2-06 (lunch) Introduced the kids to xsci.wikispaces.com

10-4-06 Dr. Schneegurt spoke to the club about the importance of content research before beginning a project Practice with wiki 11 students

10-9-06 (lunch) Referred kids to the wiki again Announced WSU tour Passed around a roster for kids to sign up for officer positions 11 Students

10-18-06 Showed a CNN video of 2 highschool teens who found and sequenced an oncogene and got published (courtesy of Stan) 5 students

11-1-06 Dr. Schneegurt and Dustin came to speak about the physiology projects (valsalva, lung capacity, aspartame) 7 students

11-8-06 The electrophoresis group showed me the fruits of their wal-mart excursion and are ready to get started. I had 2 students attend and they are interested in working on the pigment project. 12 students