PINE MOUNTAIN CLUB, Calif. (KERO) — Many middle schoolers spend their free time playing video games or playing outdoors.

But for Alekha Goldberg, a seventh-grade student at Peak to Peak Mountain Charter in Pine Mountain Club, she prefers to be behind the microscope.

“It was something we had to kind of work into our everyday lives, as in, ‘Dad, I can’t come to dinner yet. I’m in the middle of electrifying my planaria,’” said Rageshwar Goldberg, Alekha’s mother.

“ When cut in half, each half regenerates into a new planaria rather than them feeling pain,” said Alekha. “I electrified them and over the course of a few weeks, I checked the regeneration, and in fact, electricity did help them regenerate faster.”

Her project, titled “Planarian, heal thyself! Electricity’s effect on regenera

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