In a mixture of paint and plastic, Parkway Pizzazz students made examples of how bioengineered cyanophages will kill the cyanobacteria by latching onto their host cell. The cyanophage will inject its DNA into the host cell which will rapidly replicate itself. Once mature, cyanophages will burst from the host cell, killing the cyanobacteria in the process.
May 12, 2025
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Building their way to nationals
Ephrata’s Parkway Pizzazz heading to national LEGO robotics championship
EPHRATA – Ten sixth-grade Parkway Intermediate students, two advisors and a Lego robot named Jeff will travel to New Jersey this week for the national Lego Robotics championship. For a handful of the students this is their first time on a plane, for others their first time on the east coast. For all of them, it will be their first time competing in the national Lego championship. “It was a really good experience working together because we all got to work as a team together. We do have some coders that code and people who worked on the innovation project, but we all share what we learned throughout the day,” Liliana Zaets said. “It was a really good experience because we learned a lot of things.” The Parkway Pizzazz team competed in state Jan. 18 and won the “Breakthrough” award at state competition. The award entered them into a lottery to compete at nationals. The group was selected from the lottery and now they are on their way to the American Robotics Open Competiton in New Jersey.