Peter Hirst, along with colleagues Brian Schilling, Wil Brown-Grimm and Jay Young hosted 8 classes of 3rd graders from West Lafayette Elementary School at the Purdue Meigs farm on Oct 15-16. The students learned about apples, corn, soybeans, food and the environment. They tasted apples. Some good. Some “interesting”. They learned about sugars and acids. They learned that most solar panels in the world are not black or silver (PS. They’re green). They learned that during mitosis in a developing apple, one cell divides to make 2 cells, then 4, then 8, 16, 32, 64, 128. 256… all the way up to about 60 million. Hopefully we’ll see some of these students come back as undergraduates in about 10 years from now.
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