Mad About Science :: Personal Narrative Essays

Mad About wisdom The trip to Singapore this summer was the most educational and most pleasant trip I have ever taken. Weeks later, I still pick up back at my photographs, email several people daily from the US and foreign delegations, and tell my friends and family somewhat the experience. I phonationicularly enjoyed the lecture by the researcher from the Human Genome Project. Because I have had less interest in biology in high school, I had non been following the updates on the Human Genome Project very carefully, and he summarized the project and also explained its moment well. One of the aspects of the project that I found most intriguing was the efficacy to cure diseases through the projects research. The speaker said that by first reproducing diseases, scientists would be on their way to curing them, and I had not realized the signification of the Human Genome Project in that respect. The lecture from the Australian professor, while not always aimed at as serious an a udience as he was dealing with, was also interesting, and the video I took of him was one of the favorites of everyone I showed it to when I came back home. For me, the best part of the trip was the science and technology exhibition. not many kids came to my exhibit, probably because it was just a computer screen without untold on the board behind to attract attention. But I did converse to a group of maybe 15 students from a local school. They were concerned at first in the contest I had participated in and in my web site and the process I had gone through to pee-pee it, but pretty soon they lost interest in that and became more(prenominal) concerned with my height. Like several other students I met, they all wanted photos to remember how much taller than them I was. But the most valuable part of the exhibition for me was walking around to other countries booths. When I asked the students to tell me about their projects, they were always happy to describe their work. What rea lly impressed me was the practicality and creativeness of their projects, and that so many groups of students from so many different schools could come up with such great projects. I tried to take a photo or video of each project that was described for