Doing science

Science teacher Paul Gonzenbach explains: "We poured agar plates, then students got a chance to swab different parts of the middle school (excluding themselves and the bathrooms) to inoculate their plates. Then we’re going to compare which parts had bacteria that grew the fastest. We do this experiment so students can learn sterile lab techniques." 

The students picked the places in the school they thought were the dirtiest – calculators, backs of bookshelves, pens, kitchen sponges. 

Collin, above, displays one of his agar plates: "The moral of the story is that keyboards and light switches are absolutely horrifying."

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