These Killeen school district students guided their tour group through a newly completed lab in the Texas Bioscience Institute on Tuesday, zipping past the stacks of new chairs and the emergency eye wash station to the back room to meet Arthur the model skeleton and showcase their preserved menagerie of spiders, crabs, crayfish and centipedes.
Students at the Texas Bioscience Institute were issued lab coats Tuesday and led local teachers, administrators and parents through the freshly painted halls of the Texas Bioscience Institute - an advanced high school geared toward bioscience - where classes will begin next week.
The institute houses six science labs, five classrooms, a computer lab, a study area and an auditorium.
It has a capacity to hold up to 300 students, but the inaugural class numbers around 60. The institute was built in a Scott and White West Campus building that once housed the Texas Instruments cafeteria. Construction began in August, and in just four months the institute has gone from an empty shell to a world-class facility.
One of the unique features of the science labs is the one-way glass facing out into the hall. From the students
