The laboratory the author had been assigned for his RET (Research Experience for Teachers) at Vanderbilt University is new and different from the one he had previously experienced. This summer he was assigned to the Microfluidics and Lab-on-a-chip laboratory to help research dielectrophoresis. As this is an emerging technology, there was not a lot of information to research. In this article, the author describes how he used creativity to bring the knowledge gained from his second RET home to his classroom. (Contains 3 figures.)