LT science students to create video game on biodiversity

Eleven Lyons Township High School science students recently toured the archives of Chicago’s Field Museum and examined preserved sharks all in the name of science. Over the next three weeks, these students will learn how to generate a computer program to make a video game about biodiversity, specifically underwater ecosystems.

The Field Museum is hosting a Biodiversity Arcade, where students explore the museum collections, research life underneath the deep blue sea and discover the aquatic evolutionary tree of life. Teens will learn to utilize Scratch, a free software program that incorporates interactive stories, games, and animation online. Students will then translate what they learn about Field Museum science into biodiversity video games.

Science teacher Bruce Falli learned of the program and invited members of the Science Olympiad Team and opened the experience up to any other interested science student. Falli can take up to 14 students.