eCLOSE: Intro to Research In eCLOSE: Intro to Research , student scientists will learn techniques and protocols to examine how nutrients can affect the development of The Fruit Fly. They will complete more advanced techniques like solution-making and micropipetting! Participants will put hand-eye skills to the test as they move fruit flies to nap vials and learn how to put them to sleep for sorting. Work at the eCLOSE Institute and use all of the equipment needed to complete the nutritional supplement experiment. Bring your laptop so you can take live images of YOUR experiment! On the final session, we will host a presentation event for you to share your findings! This is a HYBRID Session to welcome students scientists into the eCLOSE Lab and enable others to Zoom in. Collaboration will occur in live-time! Please be sure to select the correct option. Scientists will be grouped into peer lab groups. School District of Philadelphia students: qualify for sponsored scholarships! CODE: KEEPFLYING This session (live/zoom) serves as the pre-requisite for a winter/spring Saturday session where you would work in a specialty, building on the skills covered this week! 8th--> 10th can use this as a pre-requisite to the subsequent specialty session (biochemistry or behavioral research) BOTH follow-up sessions will also be 100% sponsored for Philadelphia students.
11th--> UG can use this as a pre-requisite to the subsequent undergraduate bridge independent research session
09/27/2025, 10/04/2025, 10/11/2025, 10/18/2025
Participants must currently be in grades 8 to college.
Minimum: 8
Maximum: 12
Registration starts on 08/21/2025 and ends on 09/20/2025.
eCLOSE was a very beneficial program that taught me a lot about cancer and research. I gained more lab experience and learned what different tools are, and their names. This was overall a good experience and I would recommend it to anyone who has a passion for STEM.
I loved this program, I think that's its very good at any level of study but as a college student it was very useful and helpful. I think that's its something very useful but rarely known to people. Having a shorter period of time made this very efficient, and showed different settings that this could be used in.
It's a good program, very hands on which i liked because we got to actually experience it ourselves and not just watch someone else do it.
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