The heart in Science In Everyday Life
Kaylor Oscar
Published: August 1, 2013
The Greater Auburn Gresham Development Corporation (GAGDC), has eight interns working at different location in Chicago. I am one of their interns and I'm working downtown at Columbia College, in the math and science department's Science in Everyday Life. At columbia we are involved in mulitple classes taught by doctors and teachers from Columbia who are in the science field. We had a doctor teach us how to do CPR. We also learned about evolution, and other types of science.
Everyday we have been working with bacteria in the lab. We were growing bacteria and introducing them to antibiotic soap to see if the bacteria will become resisent. We also made plates and put bacteria on them, and we put a antibiotic disc and a plan piece of paper as the negative control. We measured the amount of growth around the antibiotic disc.
Over the weeks our bacteria has become resistent. Over time when bacteria is introduced to a certain antibiotic, the bacteria will become resisent and grow more resisent bacteria. So if the bacteria becomes resisent to that antibiotic, that antibiotic will be useless. We made data charts (using Excel and Powerpoint) that shows that there has been growth. Also, to make sure we did have growth we plated the bacteria. After the bacteria grew we wrote down the number of colonies. Because of this summer intern expereince, I now understand why certain antibiotics does not always work for example, penicillin. Overall, I learned a lot about the environment we live in, and my love for science has been increased to a passion for science.