SUMMER CAMP HAS BEEN CANCELLED. REFUNDS WILL BE ISSUED WHEN ACCESS TO SQUAREUP.COM ACCOUNT IS RESTORED. DUE TO LACK OF CUSTOMER SERVICE WITH SQUAREUP.COM THERE IS NO ETA ON WHEN THE REFUND CAN BE PROCESSED. Deepest apologies for the mess that squareup.com has caused by making it impossible to remove the camps from the storefront before further registrations were received.
Camps are packed with hands-on DNA experiments (at least 1 full experiment per day), including using real lab pipettes, running PCR (polymerase chain reaction), and gel electrophoresis. REGISTER NOW!
BioWorks Lab has teamed up with Archimedes School of Mathematics and Programming to provide courses! Join the fun! Activities include:
• Extracting DNA from your own cheek cells then genotyping yourself!
• Learning about PCR and gel electrophoresis
• Playing a quiz show style buzzer game at the end of each 1 1/2 hour class to review what we have learned
The classes & camps provide a balance between hands on pipetting for running PCR/Gel Electrophoresis & fairly picture/video-driven presentations with printouts provided to add to their folders to take home each week. Quiz show style buzzers are used for quick questions sprinkled throughout the class, finishing with a final team buzzer round the last 20-30 minutes of each class. Classes introduce students to very basic information about DNA and how it codes for proteins to make sure everyone is getting to the same level as much as possible, then build on that base. Over the 12 weeks many different topics are covered involving DNA and how it is used in biotechnology.
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Why Biotech?
Biotechnology blends the disciplines of chemistry, biology, math, and physics fairly evenly. BioWorks Lab reinforces a better understanding of these STEM fields simultaneously in a fun, hands-on, experiment-driven class. Biotech’s blending of the fields is a much better approximation of science in the real world. In industry, people rarely do only math, or only physics, or only chemistry without a broader application that requires them to branch their knowledge out into other fields. The goal is to give students a taste of this applied science.
