After we met with Mrs.Peterson, we decided to take the project in a somewhat new direction. The new idea still involved bacteriophage science, as it is very cutting edge and that is what we are interested in innovating, but instead we came up with the idea of using the bacteriophages to kill strains of E.Coli bacteria in water sources. This new idea is very innovative and would be extremely effective in stopping E.Coli infection from a tainted water source, which often happens when water levels get too high after a storm or flood event. We have already had a meeting with Mrs.Peterson to get the ball rolling on this project. We will continue to meet with her to narrow down our ideas and solidify what we will be actually be testing and to create a finalized game-plan for the trials.
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Already having decided that Mrs.Peterson of the science department was going to be our mentor for this project, we thought it smart to have a preliminary meeting with her, just to get some brainstorming going and maybe get some basic ideas of what we might need to get into place before we can start.(View brainstorm notes below) She had some very good ideas on ways to mold our project so we could test for a broader scope of variables and gather more, easier to publish, data. Through the course of the meeting we started to adjust our trials a little bit away from the idea we originally presented, testing bacteriophages as an antibiotic alternative, and towards other areas of microbiology. With the knowledge that microbiology/bacteriology equipment can be very expensive, we also put together and submitted a grant proposal to get a little bit more money to put towards our trials, before having to dip into the Innovations class fund. After brainstorming and researching and planning the basics of what we wanted to do, we compiled it into a presentation to give to the other innovators in the class.
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