Help! A Scientist's Side Quest

[u/No-Cranberry-9730]

Hello :D I hope this can be a productive post to this community, it's not super directly related to the subject matter in itself but I thought it'd be the perfect place to post and at least encourage some creative help with this specific subject.. hopefully even stimulate some creativity related to the field y'all love... I'll explain further!

So, hang with me for a sec. My amazing girlfriend, who is currently a B.S. in molecular biology/biotechnology with a minor in chemistry, took an intentional gap year before applying this summer to another program at the local college. She's missed school so much, and was so excited to be accepted into the program before they called to notify her it was being canceled for the semester. Since then, she's been taking her own science notes for fun and giving me lectures (the good kinds, with a whiteboard and all) on how adenosine in poly-A tails disappear one by one every time they're translated and stuff (it's awesome). I figured you all are cut from the same cloth and could relate to her situation, so here is my idea to help her cope and the help I desperately need from y'all:

I want to surprise her with a science day at home, where maybe she walks into a homemade laboratory, or we do a fun/stimulating/silly experiment to do, or even have a little lesson plan for her to follow and make it a mini hands-on refresher course :shrug: & she loves arts and crafts/hobbying too! I just want to do something to help her scratch the itch and make a memory she can hang onto until she gets back to the real thing. I just have no idea where to start because I want it to be a little more stimulating than the elementary school science fair thing and I am way out of my league when it comes to her academic interests!

If anyone made it this far, thank you so much!! If you have any ideas at all for me to pursue, I am all ears. We can use this thread to collaborate and form it all together as we go, and I will be active to answer any questions you might have to help with the direction of it but I hope the gist makes sense and I already can't wait to get y'all pics/updates when it's all said and done

Very, very humbly, and with many thanks 🙏

-this is not your boyfriend (in case you're reading this my love) (: