Science teacher Allison Granberry鈥檚 “A Bumble Bee, Bacteria, and Mold: Could this be art in the making?”Science and art collided in a happy way at the Saturday DNA! Agar Art workshop at CSHL鈥檚 DNA Learning Center. Students as young as 10 learned about how laboratory techniques that scientists commonly use to study the living world can also be used to create unique works of art.
Using glowing bacteria as their 鈥減aint,鈥� participants made masterpieces within Petri dishes, and submitted their work to the 2018 American Society for Microbiology Agar Art Contest. The , and included two pieces created at the DNA Learning Center.
The 1st place winner in the Agar Art Kids segment of the contest was 10-year-old Kate Lin鈥檚 piece 鈥淭he Magnificent Butterfly.鈥� Kate is currently in the 5th grade at South Grove Elementary School in Syosset, New York. In the Agar Art Makers segment of the contest, science teacher Allison Granberry of Hostos-Lincoln Academy of Science in the Bronx, New York earned 3rd place for her piece, 鈥淎 Bumble Bee, Bacteria, and Mold: Could this be art in the making?鈥�
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