The Wakeman Lab was part of the community outreach event: Tech-Savvy. Tech Savvy is a one-day STEM Conference which is designed for female students in grades 6th through 8th, and their parents. We got a chance to interact with these young enthusiastic girls about the fascinating microbial world and also told them about the different microbial contaminants that one comes across in the day-to-day life. We demonstrated to the students the competition and cooperation that exist in the microbial world. Using the zone of inhibition method we showed them how some of these competing microbes can be sources of new antibiotics while how some other microbes cooperate with each other maintaining harmony.