During my junior year of high school, I had the opportunity to shadow a professor at the University of Kentucky, which introduced me to laboratory research and sparked my interest in the field. After this experience, I continued my involvement by volunteering in the lab, where I am currently finishing my second semester learning alongside professional researchers and scientists.

As a volunteer in the lab, I assist with a research project investigating gene expression during axolotl tissue regeneration. I have learned to isolate RNA from frozen tissue samples, perform quantitative real-time Polymerase Chain Reaction, design primers, and train in essential laboratory techniques, such as precise pipetting, weighing materials, preparing dilutions, and setting up PCR and Q-PCR reactions.

This opportunity has been a privilege, and volunteering helped me realize that research is something I genuinely enjoy, and I hope to continue exploring this path throughout my college years.

This is Aria's project on Jordan Chiles

This is Ben's Physical Education final project.

I got 100% on my painting project in Intermediate Painting! This powerpoint is my portfolio of all the paintings I made! I loved doing this project.

This is what Jonah did for his Biology Honors project.

For my final science project, I decided to conduct a plant experiment. This whole experiment was based on the fact I wanted to see how water levels would affect the growth of the plant. So when I started this experiment, I got some soil, plastic cups and seeds. It had gone on for 17 days and there was still no sign of plant life. Why? Because I had awful soil. After restarting my experiment I saw plant life in 3 days, and finished my experiment successfully. Really, the lesson of the story is to keep trying. It’s all a part of science- failing and then learning. After growing the basil, maybe I will eat it!