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This high school-college level activity screens for cellulase-producing microbes from environmental samples of the students' choice. Students prepare samples, isolate them on selective media, and screen for cellulase activity. Two methods are provided, one focusing on isolation of pure microbial...

This 1-page resource, made available by Los Angeles Mission College, provides a brief overview of a one week biotechnology workshop series held at the college in 2019. The goal of the workshop series was to "introduce participants to the endless possibilities that the biotechnology field has to...

This video, from WGBH, takes a look at a high school student taking after school biotechnology courses at Middlesex Community College. This video explores microbiology programs, the skills students need to learn, and activities to help them hone those skills, such as through shadowing other college...

The ATETV project delivers web-based videos to connect students to careers in advanced technology. This episode of ATETV deals with biotechnology, video game design, and rapid prototyping. It can be viewed whole or in three segments: "Biotechnology Student Marina Watanabe on Why She Chose to Attend...

In this 2:34 video excerpt from Pathways to Technology, meet Suzanne Pooler, a biotechnology production support associate, whose work contributes to cancer treatment. As a production support associate, Suzanne supports scientists' research by keeping cancer cells alive in test tubes. Without the...

In this 1:16 video excerpted from Pathways to Technology, you’ll learn about biotechnology: the science of using living organisms to create new products, from drugs to fuels. Genetic engineering is a booming field in biotechnology, as scientists learn how to engineer living organisms to produce...

In this 2:31 video excerpted from Pathways to Technology, you’ll learn about the role biotechnology plays in the fight against cancer. Roya Dirin is an upstream processing associate who works with cells, looking for proteins that can help treat cancer. Her first career was as a midwife, but she...

The ATETV project delivers web-based videos to connect students to careers in advanced technology. This episode of ATETV focuses on Biotechnology, Agricultural Sciences, and Medical Electronics. The video looks at the process and advantages of transferring from two-year colleges onto a four-year...

Blender is a public project that provides free and open source code software for 3D printing projects. It "supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline--modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, even video editing and game greation." Blender can be used on...

In this lesson from the MAPS GIS program at Lane Community College, and as part of the Introduction to Physical Geography course, the Blown Away module has students explore "Boolean login queries to explore tornado patterns and association to the Jet Streams annual movement. The will look for...