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.
We are thrilled to welcome Janie Butler, Program Manager, to the Colorado BioScience Institute and Colorado BioScience Association teams.