Dr. Mike's Lab

Mike was kind enough to give us a tour of the lab where he works. It was really cool to see. Mike even prepared an experiment for the kids to do.

Here are the kids with Mike, of course labcoats were mandatory. Our friend Katelyn also came with us.

The kids each got to put a mouse on the plus maze. One direction of the "plus" had walls, where the mice could go and feel safe. The other direction of the "plus" was open. The computer measured how much time each mouse spent in each path. Here are Ethan and Josh observing and Kaleb holding "his" mouse.


Once all the data was collected, they had a meeting to determine the results. Mike graphed the results for the kids to visualize. They easily determined which mice were the most anxious and the least anxious.
The last thing to determine was how this could possibly be useful to people. The kids decided the least anxious mice should be trained to "fetch" things for us. The more anxious mice? Well, of course they could be trained to clean dark corners!! lol. I guess no matter what, they are still kids!!