High School Students Take a Meticulous Look at Many Microorganisms | Wareham Week

Students from Wareham High School recently participated in the �黨�ǿ���Ƶ's High School Science Discovery Program.

17 Wareham High School students took a trip over the bridge to the Marine Biological Laboratory, a world renown research center in Falmouth that studies microbiology, marine life and more.

The students spent three days in March at the center where they took a look at the microorganisms that live in their mouths and on the beach with microbiologist Scott Chimileski.

Upon returning from the trip, three students, Will Wiksten, Samantha Bumpus and Lain Potter along with Wareham High School biology teacher Beth Giuffrida presented their experience to the School Committee Thursday, April 3.

"We went out and collected samples from the beach, sand, moss from rocks, put it under the microscope and looked for hydroorganisms," said Wiksten.

Potter added that the main research of the trip was examining the bacteria that lives inside the human mouth.

"We swabbed our own tounges and looked at what was growing," Potter said.

To examine the bacteria, Potter said the students learned how to use three different kinds of microscopes and event got to take pictures of the inside of their mouths.

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