Life before, the day started with checking the results of the previous experiments. Starting with Challenge1 we opened hoping for much more progress than the little that had been achieved on the first day back. Upon revealing the results, we saw a huge spike in the activity. The Physarum had a much greater web and even broke free of the petri dish. The webbing was also much thicker and more defined. The results were very apparent.
The success was soon followed by a failure, however, when we opened the second challenge's petri dish. Black hold had formed on oat flake that had honey on it and the Physarum had seemingly not spread at all. There was no distance to measure, unfortunately.
Moving on the the next challenge, we took out our maze design and our tin foil. We molded the foil to create a labyrinth for the Physarum to travel through.
Placing the Physarum pulled from our now highly expansive culture of physarum at one end of the maze, and oat flakes at the other end we sealed it up and awaited the results.
The final challenge was the next so we had to prepare how to create "buildings" for our "Physarum pathway". after some thought, we decided to choose folded flashcards as our building material.
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