AVIDA Digital Evolution
There were many parts of this project. From data collecting, to dying MacBooks, and working with lots of different partners. AVIDA is an application that's a symilator that generates organisms that are actually tiny pixels. We learned about how to analyze the petri dish, natural selection, and evolution. First we worked on our own experiments in class with a partner, but then went upstairs to conduct experiments with 11th graders. We took many notes on what was happening to the organisms, and answered questions about the experiment. Depending on the settings you had the app on, the growth of the population could very in speed and color.
Example of what the process on the application looks like:
Example of what the process on the application looks like: