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AMS presenting to High Point Friends School about our trip |
Day 16 by Micah
Today we went to a food science lab and there were lots of
people with cool accents. They were studying what causes allergic reactions
from peanuts. They extract the proteins with a machine. Then they take the
proteins and put them into a different machine. They look at the amino acids in
the proteins. They found which sequences of amino acids that make allergies and
they can possibly extract these sequences to make hypoallergenic peanuts.
There was another professor who talked to us about dairy,
especially the bacteria in yogurt and its health benefits. Another professor
takes the left over grape stuff from wine and tries to bake it into bread to
add fiber and antioxidants. There was a testing room with funny colored lights
to mask the color of the food. People would test the smell, taste, texture and
the appearance of different foods.
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Learning about probiotics |
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Amino acid sequencer |
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Other door we passed |
We visited with Greensboro Montessori middle schoolers at “The
Land”, which is “wilderness” but is actually a field and forest. We talked to
them about our trip and school and they talked to us about their school.
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At AMS, kids misplace their stuff all the time. Her is Sage with her substitute mess kit |
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At Montessori, everything has its place.
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Day 17 by Minto
Today we went to Second Harvest food bank in Winston Salem. We
did service work for them for about four hours, checking expiration-dates, for dents
and holes in food packages, then some of us packed varieties of food in little
cardboard boxes . I was amazed by how
much food they throw away. They threw away like a third of the food that they
got donated from grocery stores because it was maybe bad. After that we went to corn syrup factory but
we can’t talk about it, so yea.
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Learning about how HFCS 55 is made |
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