Our lab hosted about 50 visiting middle school students for STEM Day to learn about behavior-manipulating parasites and get their hands on some zombie ants. We got a great crowd of excited students (and a few grossed-out ones) that were full of questions and ideas as they took a peek at our healthy ant colony, studied zombified ant and fungal samples under a microscope, or searched for cadavers still clinging to their plants in our various displays.
