FAIRFIELD -- Students at Lawrence Junior High School had fun participating and learning inside the Maine Mobile Biolab.
"I think it's cool to use the little glucose test measurer which I never used before and I liked being able to learn more about how it worked in total," said Katelynn Shores, a seventh grader at Lawrence Junior High School
The lab started a statewide tour on March 11. S.T.E.M. educators Heather Carlisle and Anna Stehlik will be traveling across the state with the goal of attracting kids to science at an early age.
"That is the age where it's really important to keep kids interested in science. Sometimes that can be the age where their interest in science starts to drop off. We want to keep them engaged and show them that there's a lot of career opportunities past school for them to be involved in biosciences in Maine and in their local communities," said Stehlik.
Stehlik says students have the opportunity to participate in a variety of science activities, including seeing how concussions occur through force plates and removing an invasive species from an environment.
Wednesday featured a "Where Did the Sugar Go?" activity, where students learn about Type 1 diabetes and how to test blood sugar and glucose levels.
This lesson was particularly important to seventh grader Jordan Van Aken, who has family members diagnosed with diabetes.
"It can help me because if i have to watch my cousins, two are older and one's younger, if i have to watch the other one [the younger one], I could help him," said Van Aken.