The Science Department at Saint Patrick High School hosted 38 grammar school students from Saint Robert Bellarmine for a Science Workshop on Thursday October 12. Saint Patrick faculty members Christopher Perez and Andrew Miller conducted the workshop. The Science Department at Saint Patrick is glad to share their resources with local grammar schools that may not have the proper equipment and facilities to do certain experiments. A similar workshop is scheduled for 19 students from Saint Constance Grammar School on October 18.

The three-hour workshop, held in Saint Patrick’s College Biology Laboratory, taught the students how to use light microscopes to further understand the cell and the differences between human and animal cells. The first order of business was learning the parts of the microscope and how to use a microscope correctly to focus on an image. Once they had a handle on how to use the microscopes, the students prepared a wet mount of onion cells and studied the structure of them. The final portion of the workshop involved preparing a wet mount of human cheek cells and identifying the similarities and differences between the cheek cells and the onion cells that they had studied earlier.