Blog: Partner Highlights

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Partner Highlight: Building with Biology at the Joseph Moore Museum of Natural History at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana

March 2, 2017
By: Lydia Evans, Joseph Moore Museum
Synthetic or real vanilla—which tastes better? Guests at the Joseph Moore Museum’s Building with Biology event had the opportunity to decide for themselves while learning about bioengineered food at the Bio Bistro station. After tasting cookies baked with synthetic or...
Port Discovery Children's Museum

Partner Highlight: Zoom into Nano: Bringing Nano to a New Audience in Towson, Maryland

March 2, 2017
By: Sarah Zimmerman, Port Discovery Children's Museum
Port Discovery Children’s Museum in Baltimore is committed to providing educational programming to children of all socio-economic backgrounds across Maryland. The Museum and Community Partnerships Explore Science: Zoom into Nano kit was the perfect opportunity for the museum to reach...
Sci-Port Discovery Center

Partner Highlight: Explore Science and Bars without Barriers in Shreveport, Louisiana

January 29, 2017
By: Alan Brown, Sci-Port Discovery Center
In July 2015, with funding from the Beaird Family Foundation, Sci-Port Discovery Center began a joint venture with the Caddo Parish Sheriff's Workforce Re-entry Facility. While that re-entry program provides job training and skills, our Bars without Barriers program provides...
Temple Beth Zion Beth Isreal

Partner Highlight: Building with Biology at Temple Beth Zion-Beth Israel in Philadelphia, PA

January 23, 2017
By: Spencer Glantz, University of Pennsylvania
Over the last few years, Spencer Glantz, a bioengineering PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania, has helped to grow and advise the Penn iGEM team, worked with museum educators at The Franklin Institute to develop prototype activities for Building...
BosLab Building with Biology event

Partner Highlight: BosLab hosts first Building with Biology event in Somerville, Massachusetts

January 4, 2017
By: Angela Kaczmarczyk and Jennifer Clifford, BosLab
Boston Open Science Laboratory ( BosLab ) is a community lab located in Somerville, Massachusetts. BosLab is dedicated to science outreach and it offers educational seminars, workshops, and hands-on molecular biology classes for the public. In September 2016, we held...
Building with Biology

Partner Highlight: Building with Biology at The Ohio State University: Partnering with Community Organizations to Engage the Public in Science Learning

December 12, 2016
By: Courtney Price, The Ohio State University
The Center for Applied Plant Sciences ( CAPS ) and the Arabidopsis Biological Resource Center ( ABRC ) at The Ohio State University (OSU) used the Building with Biology kit as an opportunity to engage in public outreach while building...
BioBuilder

Partner Highlight: Bio Bistro Activity for BioBuilderClub Kick-off Event at Metropolitan Waterworks Museum, Boston

December 12, 2016
By: Natalie Kuldell, BioBuilder Educational Foundation
BioBuilderClub , a synthetic biology after-school program for high school teams around the country, kicked off the academic year on October 13, 2016 with an event held at Metropolitan Waterworks Museum in Boston, MA. Participants enjoyed the Bio Bistro hands-on...
SELF International, Inc.

Partner Highlight: Building with Biology on the Move with SELF International in Richfield, MN

December 12, 2016
By: Bonnie Everts, SELF International, Inc.
SELF International is a mobile discovery program based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, that delivers informal STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Math) educational opportunities and resources directly to underserved communities. In September we held a Building with Biology event at FLEX Academy...
Teen Science Cafe Network

Partner Highlight: Building with Biology Within the Teen Science Café Network - Exploring the Cool and the Scary

November 1, 2016
Kathryn Riddle Penzkover and Michelle K. Hall
The teen years are a time of exploring new frontiers and making important decisions that will change lives in ways that cannot be known. The same can be said for the field of synthetic biology - it is a time...
Port Discovery Children's Museum

Partner Highlight: Building with Biology at Port Discovery Children's Museum: Purposeful Play and Learning through Meaningful Science Experiences

October 1, 2016
Sarah Zimmerman, Port Discovery Children's Museum
On July 30th, 2016 scientists, students, and families came together at Port Discovery Children’s Museum in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor to explore and discover the emerging field of synthetic biology. The museum’s Building with Biology event was a great success, attracting...