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Speaker 1: All donning white lab coats and safety goggles. Students in

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Speaker 1: the ap bioclass are hard at work, pipetting and mixing

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Speaker 1: to try to make a bacteria shine fluorescent red. It's

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Speaker 1: part of a partnership called the Amgen Biotech Experience, where

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Speaker 1: Cambridge based Amgen provides professional grade equipment for students to

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Speaker 1: work with to complete experiments. State Rep. Judith Garcia is here.

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Speaker 1: She graduated from Chelsea High in two thousand and nine

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Speaker 1: and is proud to see the kids hard at work.

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Speaker 2: We need to be able to develop more critical thinkers,

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Speaker 2: and when we have projects like this where they can

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Speaker 2: quickly develop those skills, that's the best way to do it.

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Speaker 1: Many students here are either going to college or want

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Speaker 1: to go for things like biotech, engineering, medicine, and more.

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Speaker 1: Tiffany Tal is with Amgen, and she says days like

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Speaker 1: these give the students a leg up.

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Speaker 3: I do think that it kind of gives them an

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Speaker 3: advantage moving into college potentially and then moving into the workforce,

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Speaker 3: particularly into the biotechnology workforce.

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Speaker 1: From Chelsea. Kyle Bray WBZ, Boston's news radio