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Graduate students and staff from the Food Safety Lab and the Department of Food Science at Cornell University hosted a three day food science workshop for high school students on June 30th - July 2nd, 2015. Twelve high school students attended the workshop entitled Food Science: Cracking the Case. The schedule of activities and topics can be found here. Learning objectives for the workshop are below:

1. propose habits that can decrease foodborne illness.

2. identify possible symptoms of foodborne pathogens.

3. compare and contrast the incubation periods of four common foodborne pathogens.

4. practice the steps of an outbreak investigation and apply them to a hypothetical scenario.

5. explain DNA replication as it occurs naturally and in the test tube.

6. describe how the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) works.

7. assess the cause of the outbreak and propose control measures.

8. evaluate experimental limitations in light of the outbreak investigation.

Pre and post workshop questionsevaluation:

Q1 - On a 1-10 scale, how interested are you in food science as a career?