At the end of their experiment, RISE Elementary students were pulling out a gooey, stringy substance from their strawberry mush. “That’s not a booger, that’s DNA,” Joseph Williams told the students.

DCS and Houston Academy 3rd-graders celebrating National DNA Day by participating in strawberry DNA extraction.

Today at RISE Elementary in Neosho, students learned that science isn't just in textbooks—it's in strawberries too! Dr.