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Mealworm Mania: Naturally Biodegrading Plastics
Good Bye Plastic!
We are a group of three students from Stratford High School with one goal of changing the world. By utilizing mealworms and wax worms' extraordinary ability to consume plastic we plan to take part in ending the international plastic problem.
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Meal Worms Are In!!'
We have our meal worms finally and swill have to fast track the testing phase due to shipping delay. We will keep y'all ya updated as we...
Still waiting on the shipment
Our shipment of mealworms is still processing, and due to the Corona Virus scares across the world, package shipping time has increased...
Jacob Kim
Third-order of Mealworms placed!
After our second order of mealworms which we purchased about 2 1/2 weeks ago was lost in transaction, we decided to just order another...
Jacob Kim
Ordering the Worms
Now that we have finished our lab prep, the mealworms will be ordered in the near future. The first test we plan to do is to mash and...
Jacob Kim
Setting the Lab
We will be ordering the mealworms soon, but before we do, we need to set our lab with equipment. We will be using incubators, provided by...
Jacob Kim
Back from the Break!
Now that the break is over, our project to use the mealworms has resumed. Our next step in our project will be to synthesize a liquid to...
Jacob Kim
Winter Break
Due to the inability to access our lab over the winter break of our school institution we will spend our time over winter break...
Jacob Kim
Delay in Project
As we deal with our final test for our courses and academics in school, we have found a lack of time to perform certain procedures in our...
Jacob Kim
Time to culture
Now that we have finished the first stage of our experiment. We are not moving to the second phase which is bacteria culturing. We plan...
Overall Observations following the end of the testing phase.
In both Box 1 and Box 2 we tested mealworms ability to biodegrade styrofoam, and the results were as expected. The mealworms were able to...
Waxworm Dilemma
As seen in the bucket of this picture all the black little dots are dead wax worms. Due to the delicacy of these worms we do not think we...
Progress Update:
We are now at 5 days from the placement of worms into their respective trays. On day 5 we found a lot of action in the mealworms tray....
Project Update:
Everything is ready for the start of 'Testing' phase. We are waiting on the shipment on the worms to begin. Also, we are gaining more...
Working on the 'worm' food to put in the trays.
For each type of plastic we will weigh the amount of plastic beforehand and mark in a separate pre-made chart. Then at the end of each...
Observation Charts
Each day we will mark our observations in these organized observations charts once the worms are placed.
Lab Station is all set up!
We have all trays ready for worm placement and observation charts hung up as seen in the picture.
Progress
With the worms purchased we are in course to begin seeing results hands on instead of just in online research. We are excited to begin...
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