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October 25th, 2023 We’re thrilled to announce the success of our latest program: Elevate Chemistry Education: Dynamic Virtual Demos for Classroom! Over four weeks, led by Janie Butler, teachers immersed themselves in classroom-ready chemistry demos and lessons. Each week, esteemed guest speakers, including, Patrick Barney, PhD from Corden Pharma, Amy Beckley PhD from Proov Diagnostics and Melissa Krebs, Ph.D from GelSana, provided invaluable insights into the world of chemistry in Colorado. The program facilitated invaluable connections with these local industry experts, providing participants with genuine, real-world insights to enhance their pedagogical approach. This course trained 14 teachers, impacting 1575 students. A thank you to the Medtronic Foundation for their generous support, which makes our mission possible. Together, we empower educators and inspire future scientists.

We had an excellent event last week featuring our own Janie Butler and  Jordan Haas from Green Key Resources, titled “Crafting Your Path: Mastering the Art of Resume Writing for Undergraduates.”

Today, our 84 student mentees and 16 industry mentors came together for our Mentor Kickoff Event! 

Colorado BioScience Institute would like to thank AlloSource®, STAQ PHARMA, Medtronic, Proov, TriSalus Life Sciences, ZimVie, and Terumo Blood and Cell Technologies, for hosting teachers in your facilities and providing valuable insights into the bioscience workforce that will be translated into classroom practices – this year’s RET program has been such a success thanks to your participation. Colorado BioScience Institute’s STEM Research Experience for Teachers (RET) program provides middle and high school teachers real-world experience and helping them translate that experience and new knowledge into the classroom. STEM RET is an intensive program, held five days a week for four weeks during the summer. Thank you, as well, to Medtronic Foundation for supporting this work to help the Institute cultivate and diversify Colorado’s life sciences workforce, and to the Denver Museum of Nature & Science for your partnership on the teacher professional development trainings.

The Colorado BioScience Institute (The Institute) takes great pride in celebrating the remarkable achievements and groundbreaking discoveries made by students in the field of life sciences. Every year, The Institute joins the Colorado State Science and Engineering Fair at Colorado State University with a panel of special judges. This year, an inaugural award was introduced to recognize visionary thinking and pioneering approaches—the Future of Life Sciences Award. 

After 3 days of learning together, our teachers are walked away with supplies and skills for classroom-ready implementation of biotechnology skills. Led by our own Janie Butler, in partnership with Joe Cox of Chatfield Senior High School and Fan Yeung of Front Range Community College, 24 Colorado teachers joined the training from 17 different high schools. Collectively, the participating teachers anticipate that during the 2023-2024 school year, they will reach a combined 2,590 students with biotechnology content and skills learned in this training. Thanks to the support of our sponsors, Medtronic Foundation and Corden Pharma – A Full-Service CDMO , our Biotech Teacher Training was a success! This program helps Colorado BioScience Institute in our work of cultivating and diversifying Colorado’s life sciences ecosystem by offering professional development that provides high school science teachers the opportunity to learn a molecular biology curriculum using the LabXChange platform. 

We were thrilled to see our community come together for BioScience on Tap, Colorado BioScience Institute’s annual fundraising event, last week. Members of Colorado’s life sciences ecosystem gathered inside Sanitas Brewing Co. in Boulder to support our work of cultivating and diversifying the state’s life sciences workforce, and to engage in an evening of networking. With the help of all who supported this event, The Institute will continue our efforts to build a skilled, diverse life sciences workforce with investments in programs and experiences that span elementary school to executive education. We would like to extend a huge thank you to our BioScience on Tap sponsors, the Medtronic Foundation, Corgenix Medical Corporation, and Azzur Group, for making this event possible.

The program will offer founders who are developing or commercializing technologies, products, devices, and life-saving breakthroughs the combined expertise and insights of Innosphere, CBSA, and The Institute.