July Update

Happy Summer!
Yay; now that the weather is finally good our work has really picked up its pace and Joey and I have completed our presentation requirements for the program! We presented to a couple of sections of the Upward bound Program, a program to encourage education for youth at risk, usually these kids are very bright but have bad family lives or no post high school experience in their family. The two groups we presented to were great kids full of good questions and interesting insight into what we are doing in the lab. The learning curve is always really steep when we present because most people don't know anything about fungi but by the end of our session these kids had all sorts of ideas for experiments and some pretty hard questions to tackle. Regardless we have a lot of fun with them and are really happy to be done with our presentations.
In the lab, things are going well, our new sawdust experiment is going good and we just set up a new soil trial(After some minor water content difficulties,) I should be ready to transfer my plugs to soil tomorrow. So between the three experiments we're running right now and the ever so fun worksheets that go along with them, we are keeping ourselves pretty busy.
Well that's about it, I'll catch you later!
-C