 This is our final prototype. It has quick release of valves and we have a stopper on the side so you can easily pipet the fish in and out. Pour a bunch of mineral oil in, smear it all over the inside, and then turn it back over, place it in here. This was a project we put together in the last couple years to introduce biology undergraduates to something we do in the lab all the time, which is when we have a question we need to answer and there's no piece of equipment to answer it. We build our own experimental equipment and it's a great chance for students to get their hands on a problem-solving situation that has to do with a real biology question in the lab. This might just be my style of learning, but I really benefit from being able to go in and work on stuff like this and it really helps me apply those base biology concepts to that research. It wasn't a typical classroom. We were either down here at Generator or we were in a conference room all sitting around a wooden table. It wasn't like, I'm up here and you're all in the stands listening to me lecture all day. It was more of a conversation every day, like feedback back and forth. So that's why we do it here at Generator, which is a maker space full of lots of talented people who have skills, broad range of skills, so the students just mixing with this group will have to explain what they're doing one in a way that somebody who's not a biologist can understand and then kind of get feedback on how to improve their project. So it's a communication class as much as it is an engineering class or a biology class. If I had a place like Generator when I was in college, life for me would be very different today because I felt bottlenecked in college where I was learning one specific thing without being ever exposed to the rest of what's out there. And that definitely leads to a higher understanding of the material because you are in such post proximity with somebody who is an expert. And because it's so much fun, I just want to jump in and sort of solve all the problems myself. I also like to see them squirm a little bit on their own.