Walking through the new upstairs E-wing, the smell of Play-Doh was wafting all the way to the stairs from Mrs. Kay Minter’s AP Psychology class.

After two exams, the class finally got to relax with a hands-on study session before their third and final exam over the neuroscience unit.

“We already did the hard part,” Mrs. Minter said. “So now we are doing the lab that goes with it, we are building the brain we studied about [with Play-Doh].”

The lab is designed to allow students to be able to have their own, personal, study tool in preparation for

the AP exam on Monday, May 1.

“This is to model the brain,” Dominic Hume ‘18 said. “It helps me know which functions the different parts [have].”

Each student can then take their model home and study with their own work, at their own pace.

“With the model we can kind of visualize the parts of the brain we have been studying,” Alexis Lemus ‘18 said. “It makes it really approachable and understandable, but making it is kind of frustrating when it’s not as good as you want it to be.”

Mrs. Minter hopes her class gets a lot out of the lab from the detailed amount of work that goes into each and every model.

“We’ve been drawing it,” Mrs. Minter said, “talking about it, and now we’re actually creating it from the inside out in evolutionary progression.”