Kristy Pottebaum, Monte’s mom, came to visit on Thursday, March 26th. Kristy works at Novartis in Larchwood. Novartis makes animal vaccinations/medicines (the Larchwood office concentrates on farm animals). Kristy works in the cell culture/growth department. They take cells that have been taken from cows and pigs and grow them in roller bottles in order to make vaccines for these animals. She stressed the importance of having a very sterile environment and how important it is to keep out any bacteria. She brought in “plates” so the kids could see how bacteria grows. In one plate, the kids could cough or sneeze into it. With the other plate, they could go around and touch different surfaces in the room to see if any bacteria is present. We let them “grow” over the weekend and checked them on Monday to see if any bacteria grew - it did!!! The kids were very excited (and some were grossed out!) to see how much bacteria grew! We would like to thank her for taking the time to come visit us (and for the pens and frisbees she gave to the class!)
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