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Due to the forecasted inclement weather, MICDS will have an early dismissal at 1:15 p.m. Please make arrangements to pick up your children no later than 2 p.m., at which time campus will be closed. All after-school and evening activities are canceled. UPPER SCHOOL - There will be no supervised spaces available after campus is closed. All students are expected to be picked up or depart by 2 p.m. MIDDLE SCHOOL - Middle School carpool will proceed as usual. Middle School siblings of Lower School students will need to be picked up in the Middle School carpool through Entrance #1 (C Lot). LOWER SCHOOL - Lower School carpool will proceed as usual. Students in Grades 2 through 4 will dismiss between 1:15 and 1:30, and students in Grades JK through 1 will dismiss between 1:35 and 1:45. Younger siblings of students in Grades 2 through 4 will be ready in the 1:15 shift.

12.05.19

Autotroph Biological Design Class Tours Donald Danforth Plant Science Center

Students from Upper School Science Teacher Mr. Paul Zahller’s Autotroph Biological Design class took part in a tour at the International Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, a not-for-profit research institute dedicated to plant science and product development. The tour on Wednesday included time viewing core technologies such as the Bellweather Plant Phenotyping Facility, Advanced Bioimaging Laboratory, Plant Tissue Culture and Transformation Laboratory, and Integrated Plant Growth Facility. In addition, students met plant scientists from the Slotkin Lab and participated in two studies: plant blindness in collaboration with Memphis University and a Danforth project on corn plant architecture.