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__2/25/08__ - Today in class I had a discussion with Dr. Loughran on my science fair project again. It was about my results and how to make the poster and what I can discuss. Basically, I learned that a lot of negative results aren't necessarily bad, as they help you learn what not to do, so that other people who push your project forward will not waste time on the methods that don't work, and more time focusing on other potentially sucessful methods to reaching the goal.

I have some interesting results regarding the different self-assembling monolayers (SAMs) such as PEG solution and OTS solution with varying results. This was my summer work. My other portion of this science fair presentation is on what I did over the school year which was using enzyme digestion to linearize my circular DNA plasmid and use various DNA deposition methods.

__2/26/08__ - Today I spent time catching up in my logbook and thinking of the different things I need to take care of for my poster.

1.) I need to re edit some things from my poster outline.

2.) I need to take cross-sections of my images from both my summer work and my school year work.

3.) Type and edit the slides.

4.) Put Slides on Poster