Day 7, Working in the Dirt

Today is full of work. We're scrambling tonight because we have our final presentation at 10:30 tomorrow morning. However, I feel certain that it will pay off.  My group is the first group in the Seeds of Change program to study butterflies and caterpillars.

We are doing a bacterial study of the 1st, 3rd, and 5th stages of Caligo butterflies or owl butterflies. We predict that the more mature caterpillars will have more variety and quantity of bacteria because they will have lived longer and therefore will have been exposed to more bacteria.

So far, in the few results that we have, our data has supported our hypothesis. This fact is very invigorating. We have been working very hard and are looking forward to the reward for all our hard work. Not just my groups, but all of the groups, are very excited and energized because all of our hard work is about to pay off. We're looking forward to the presentations tomorrow and you will definitely hear from us soon.

Jesse Akers

 (One of our teams working vigorously on their final projects)

 (Our work schedule over the past few days)

 (A few of our students analyze their data with the help of Alan)

(Another team working on their projects on the porch outside)