Bio Tech Trip

The view from the top of the North Dakota capitol building. Quite a view.

Now as I have mentioned in the previous posts, I am doing a really fun project/science experiment/science class at a local college. We are sequencing plant genes, specific plant genes. To sequence a gene simply means to identify what base pairs (what the code is) and what it's function is in the life of it's cell. Now it is a pretty long process, especially if you are doing it for the first time and have little or no knowledge about how to use the tools used for carrying it out.

Now this project also requires a fair amount of money. The money for this particular project comes from the hardworking taxpayers of ND. Thank you, I am learning. Well, in order to get the money, the government had to give it to us (after taking it from all of us). To make a long story short, they also gave us money, so we could travel to the capital and set up displays that showed how we were learning (using their/our money). An odd idea I think. "We will give you your money to learn, and money to come and tell us about how you are learning. So that we can give you more when the time comes." Now maybe things are thought out a little more than that, but it seems odd. Anyway, I do have a small amount of photos from the fun trip out to Bismark. I really learned a lot, and had a fun time. My co-learners are a great bunch to hang out with. And we had an awesome time at the water-park the night before our displays. I admit yet again that my picture taking is woefully incompetent

This is my small groups poster, on the plants we did. Geranium, Sweet Potato, and on called

Arabidopsis. Sadly the Geranium did not appear to work on this one. If you view it big, you can read our amazing poster.

Back to front. Dustin, Selah, and Abbi. This is one small group. There are four groups. That is their poster in the background.

Below is me standing right outside the Governor's office where we had most of our posters. I did see the Governor.

All in all an interesting and educational experience. I seem to have lots of those.