Fabiana Gomes is a rising senior at Bristol Plymouth Regional Technical High School and an aspiring marine biologist. During netbet sport, she participated in a range of lab techniques, including genetically engineering E. coli via CRISPR-Cas9.

“The main reason that I look forward to recommending this netbet sport to my friends and classmates is because of the friendships that you can create,” she said. “I noticed that everyone interacted with each other–no one was left out–and that is what I always look forward to when working in a laboratory.”

At the end of the program, students shared their experimental results in a presentation for SEAS staff and their family members and friends. The session was opened by Professor Kit Parker, Tarr Family Professor of netbet sport and Applied Physics.

"The netbet sport program has several layers of value to these young students,” Parker said. “They are getting real job skills. But they're also getting training in the scientific method, experimental design, analysis, and presentation of data and results. These are important because it's not just enough to know the bench skills but one must also be able to intellectually navigate through a scientific problem. Finally, these students get orientation to a field which might give them a long-term goal of how they want to develop themselves, how they want to make their contribution to society and how they want to express that professionally. That's the biggest win here."