This week, I’ve continued to study plants and I’ve been getting more into the scientific processes that occur in plant growth. Recently, I’ve been studying the cellular structure of plants and I’ve learned about cellulose. Cellulose is an organic compound found in plant cells that keeps the plant upright and perky. I’ve also joined a [...]
Green Thumbs
This week in Innovation Lab, I’ve been pretty busy. I’ve been continuously studying plants, how they work, and how to take care of them. I’ve honestly never had a green thumb, I’ve killed nearly every plant I’ve ever had. This is a bit ironic for me since I want to major in ecology and am [...]
W o m e n.
This week, I’ve been working harder on something I’ve been wanting to do for a while. I’ve been reading! Recently, I chose to start an independent study with Ms. Hawes on women’s literature. Not only is this a topic something I’ve been interested in for many years, but it is not a topic that is [...]
My Crops are Flourishing.
This week, I made more progress with my project. I’ve continued to study leaf structure by looking at them under a microscope. I allowed the plant’s leaf, my parlor palm, to dry and examined it. When looking at it under a microscope, I noticed the cells seemed to be shrunken and much smaller than when [...]
We Dig Deeper
This week, I’ve made progress that made me very content with my findings. I’ve been studying the leaves that I’ve collected from my plants under a microscope. This is a continuation of the project I've been working on involving I cut up small samples of the philodendron and the parlor palm and set up a [...]
Progress Update
Recently, I’ve been working towards a new goal. A goal of broadening my horizon and attempting to understand plants more in-depth. A couple of weeks ago, I had an exhibition for the science project I’ve been working on for months now. This project was about how effective houseplants were at circulating the air. I became [...]
A Deep Dive into the Mind of Ben Wolff.
Recently, I had the privilege of Interviewing Ben Wolff on his current Design Studio project. Wolff is a seventeen-year-old play write and is a student at Greenwich High School. Wolff displays his creativity and passion for drama through a multitude of brilliant plots. Wolff claims that it can take him many weeks to produce a [...]
Queen Bees and Failure
For this week’s blog post, we were given the task of discussing our progress in our projects. This past week, I’ve been emailing many beekeepers and trying to get in contact with as many experts as I can. I’m very lucky that in my community, there are tons of beekeepers who are part of clubs. [...]
Understanding the “Waggle Dance”: An Introduction to My Senior Science Project
Over the summer, I began noticing that there were fewer bees than usual this year in my garden. I found this very odd because we have quite a bit of mint planted and it always attracts several bees. This made me very curious and I began looking into why bees haven't been visiting me as [...]
Learning about Women Across the World
This week in Design Studio, we’ve been given the task to discuss what we’ve been learning about in Humanities. In this class, we’ve begun learning about gender, discussing inequalities between genders and social struggles people are facing due to gender discrimination. For this unit, I’ve been assigned to research women’s rights in China. At first, [...]
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