Saltz Interns Amit and Jin
Tomorrow, during the Intrepid Museum’s virtual Youth Summit where students hear from experts in the fields of STEM and social advocacy. Our very own Saltz Interns, Amit Sewnauth, and Jin Kyle Watanabe will give virtual diorama tours of the Komodo dragon and the leatherback sea turtle in the Museum’s Reptiles and Amphibians Hall. Way to go!⠀
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Amit is a rising junior at Townsend Harris High School and enjoys learning about biology and astronomy. Specifically, drawn to conservation biology and the study of black holes. In his free time, he creates stop motion animations, writing, and practices the trumpet.⠀
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Jin Kyle Watanabe is a freshman at Eleanor Roosevelt High School, and his favorite subjects are history and biology. He often plays guitar, baseball, and participates in Model United Nations. ⠀
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AMNH Microbiome Science Visualization Course
AMNH Microbiome Science Visualization Course
For their last day of class, they presented their final projects on how the purpose, scope, and data collection methods of the American Gut Project allows researchers to learn how diet influences the human microbiome, lifestyle, and disease. We learned how the human microbiome becomes threatened, and the consequences it has overall on human health.
AMNH Microbiome Science Visualization Course
AMNH Microbiome Science Visualization Course
Last week students performed lab tasks: they used micropipettes, counted bacterial colonies on agar plates, and classified bacterial colonies based on physical characteristics. They analyzed amplified genetic material through agarose gel electrophoresis, which helped conclude patterns, correlations, and trends in the visualization of large data sets that are likely to go unnoticed in text-based data.
#AMNHLang Student Using iNaturalist App
In the previous #AMNHLang post, we introduced the nature data collection app the Lang Program used to record the number of insects they spot in NYC. With a total of 269 observations cataloged from their excursion to Central Park, they then embarked on content creation for social media in hopes that like-minded citizen scientists (like you!) would participate in the #CityNatureChallange2020 🏙️🐝🔍an international project led by iNaturalist happening on April 24-27 this year.
The City Nature Challenge is an event where people find and document plants and wildlife in cities across the globe. It’s a competition where metro areas are in a contest against each other to see who can make the most observations of nature, who can find the most species, and who can engage the most people. We hope you will participate this year–there is a link in our bio to see the results from the 2019 challenge.
With the app, you can identify species in under 30 seconds—as demonstrated here by a student observing a Morpho butterfly 🦋 in The Butterfly Conservatory at the Museum. If you would like to participate in the challenge, start practicing! We look forward to sharing more student-curated science content with you.
At today's Teen SciCafe Harvard's Rachel Carmody spoke about how all human cultures use cooking and other means to process food. Here we see three student volunteers partaking in a taste test between a raw sweet potato and a cooked one! 🍠🍠🍠 Listen to their observations.
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We learned that cooking increases the calories we extract from food and gained insight as to how it gives humans an evolutionary edge and why it may present challenges for our present and future.
#amnhTeenSciCafe The Leakey Foundation
The Youth & Alumni Committee (YAC) and Staff at the American Museum of Natural History helped create a jungle tree with pools noodles, a camera tripod, recycled butcher paper, and even repurposed the use of faux leaves from a prior project. Check out our Instagram page to see the Orangutan bean bag activity, also curated by YAC.
Behind the Scenes
Here is a timelapse of our Youth & Alumni Committee members and Staff creating a jungle tree for the Teen SciCafe!
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Happy Valentines Day!
Happy Valentine's Day! 💝 Check out these featured "sweethearts" from @AMNHTeens Instagram story.
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Whoa. Dancing while conducting an atmospheric experiment!
