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By DEBORAH FLINCHUM
Rappahannock News Special Writer
Five Rappahannock County High School students participated in a Science and Math Enrichment Day at James Madison University. The program was sponsored by the Valley of Virginia Science and Mathematics Consortium which was established by the state for JMU to provide classes and services to the high schools in the area.
Those who attended were Tara Fisher, Mathematics; Henry B. Wood, Physics; Raphael Brand, Chemistry; Randy Jenkins,- Biology, and Anthony Fudd, Earth Science. Mrs. Bet Gehringer accompanied the students to JMU.
Science chairman Brion Patterson explained that the participants’ selection was based mainly on grade status. “Each school was asked to select a top student from each field of study to participate,” he said.
Mrs. Gehringer felt that things were well organized. “When we got there we were greeted in the rotunda where they had a brunch set up for us. After brunch they had orientation and each of the students was told which professor to go with and they were told where to go.”
Randy Jenkins was impressed with the biology workshop. “We did a lab practicum of comparing the metabolic rates of humans and mice.”
“We had to breathe into a machine that recorded our breathing rate. After we got the metabolic rate of the human, we did an experiment on a mouse to measure its metabolic rate. Then we typed all of the information into a computer and compared the rates,” Randy continued.
“We concluded that mice have a higher metabolic rate than humans due to surface area.”
“We got to walk through the lab and work with any machine or computer that we wanted to. The machine I worked with most was a BRMA, which is a metabolism apparatus. I now know how to set it up myself and operate it,” Randy commented.
“I felt by attending I got a feel of what college will be like if I do go into biology and what kind of labs I’ll be doing and what kind of machines I’ll be working with,” Randy concluded.
Henry Wood talked about his day in the physics department. “We
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