LEAP Lab: Microbial Buddies
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![Clear container filled with mud, water, and green film to showcase the microbiomes found in a local lake.](/sites/default/files/styles/findit_opportunity_image_large/public/image/event/2023-03/My%20project.jpg?h=98d62943&itok=Io6TRTsc)
Microbes live everywhere! From inside your gut to the middle of the ocean.
Sign-up Information
Ages: 4 to 10.
Wheelchair accessible.
Optional registration
- Sign-up is ongoing
Registration recommended! Youβll be the first to learn of event details or if the location or date changes due to inclement weather.
Cost
This Event is free!
Location
- In-person only.
292 Main Street
Cambridge, MA 02142
United States
Dates and Times
.: Sat, April 22 2023 11AM β 12PM.
Additional information
They are tiny organisms, often so tiny that they can only be seen with a microscope. In order to survive, microbes interact to create a stable community that can survive in a sealed bottle for years! In this hands-on activity, participants will use craft materials to build their own model of a stable ecosystem in a bottle, and learn how microbes make energy through their interactions. At the end of the activity, get an up close look at a sample microbiome using mud from Little Sippewissett Marsh in Falmouth, MA.
This program is designed with ages 4-7 in mind, but all young scientists are welcome to attend.
Presented in collaboration with the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at MIT.
![Clear container filled with mud, water, and green film to showcase the microbiomes found in a local lake.](/sites/default/files/styles/findit_opportunity_image_large/public/image/event/2023-03/My%20project.jpg?h=98d62943&itok=Io6TRTsc)
.: Sat, April 22 2023 11AM β 12PM.
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Last updated March 9, 2023.