A 13 year old girl who along with six other students were tasked with finding samples in a nearby park of things they thought my contain bacteria. While most of the group picked up leaves, water and sticks Cammaria scooped up some goose poop. After collecting their samples they were taught how to isolate the bacteria and program a robot to catalogue it. Cammaria's bacteria contained a cancer fighting compound. The program out of the University of Illinois partners with Boys and Girls Clubs of Chicago with the goal of giving underserved middle and high school kids experience in biomedical sciences hoping to spark their interest in the field.
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