October Blog post
October Blog post: Total volunteering: 8 hours Girls in STEM volunteering On Saturday, October 29th, I volunteered for Girls in STEM at Tulane University in the Boggs Center for Energy and Biotechnology. I started the day by leading a group of middle school girls in a fun science scavenger hunt, where they went through rooms and were introduced to scientific topics in engaging ways. One of the activities was understanding the RNA codons for translation to amino acids. They were given the table with the correspondence of RNA nucleotides to the one-letter amino acid codes. Then, I led a large group of 10 girls who were in the red stars group, to do more science activities with Tulane science professors. The first activity involved learning about plant cells and analyzing them under a microscope, as well as looking at buccal cells. The next activity was learning about primates with a professor and Ph.D. students who work at the Tulane primate center. They taught through interactive act