National Lab Network

Get Involved: 2012 Featured Projects need your help now

•  make a powerpoint slide of your career profile; participate remotely-see Scientist Profiles

•  Next Generation Science Standards open for public comment. See featured events "webinar and input" and info flyer

•  local scientists to serve as mentors for 6 months during the 2012-2013 school year-see Research Mentors

•  7th/8th grade science labs, Th & Fri, ongoing in 2012 in E. Palo Alto-see Middle School Science Labs

Bio-Community in the News

View the 2011 Bio-Community Year-In-Review

Bay Area Companies Inspire CSU Biotech Students

Biotech Partners and Citizen Schools are Ashoka Changemaker Winners

Bay Area Featured Resource Science Buddies makes headlines

Local biotech companies help low-performing schools teach science

East Bay schools aim to refresh biotech labor pool

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Play video games and learn genomics and scientific skills-checkout the newest Featured Resource from UCD:The Partnership for Biotechnology and Genomics Education

The Bay Area is abundant with science fairs!

•  BayArea BioGENEius Challenge

The Amgen Bay Area BioGENEius Challenge is on April 19, 2012. Find out more HERE.

•  Google Science Fair

The Google Science Fair deadline is April 1. Find out more HERE.

•  Hot off the press Winners

17-year-old Cupertino student wins Siemens Competition and $100,000 - San Jose Mercury News

Educator Funding & Professional Development Opportunities

North Valley Biotech Education Collaborative offers engaging, hands on molecular biology workshops for high school teachers, including lab exercises for the classroom. Register by March23d; click HERE

The Synopsys Outreach Foundation Grants: Ten grants to California K-8 teachers in the amount of $2,000 each for projects intended to have a positive and measurable impact on the environment. The deadline is April 16; find out more about the Green +1 Challenge HERE

The Warren W. Eukel Teacher Trust Fund: Three $10,000 grants to outstanding teachers in Contra Costa County. The deadline is April 30, find out more HERE

Student Career Readiness Opportunities

New Bio-Community member Lin-Zhi International wants students to put their best foot forward. Participate in a mock job interview or have your resume reviewed. Contact Bernice at bclin@lin-zhi.com with the subject line “Bio-Community.org”

Technology Vision Group wants Bay Area high school and community college students to be competitive candidates in the exciting and innovative life science industry. TVG is offering mock phone interviews to help students stand out from the crowd of applicants. Take advantage of this opportunity and send an email to Bio-Community@baybio.org with the subject line "resumes and interviews"

Lesson Plan Resources

Appreciation Archive

Second Life for Surplus Supplies and Equipment

Donations to the Bio-Link Depot are made available to any Bay Area educator. Top equipment and supply donors include:

•  Achaogen-new donor!

•  BABEC

•  Corning Axygen

•  Five Prime Therapeutics

•  Nektar Therapeutics

•  VWR International

Top Project Volunteers

•  Alex Muci, David Cragg; Cytokinetics

•  James Musick; Genentech

•  Tony Gottschalk; Gilead

•  Peggy Magarian; Magarian Consulting

•  Aaron Sato, Lauren Strachan, Michelle Stroud, Chris Murriel; OncoMed Pharmaceuticals

•  Bhanu Iyer; Rigel

Bio-Community Companies

•  Achaogen

•  Alexandria Real Estate Equities

•  Amgen

•  Baxter BioScience

•  Corning Axygen

•  Cytokinetics

•  Flad Architects

•  Genentech

•  Lin-Zhi International

•  Merck, Palo Alto

•  Neugenesis

•  OncoMed Pharmaceuticals

•  Rigel

Bio-Community Schools

•  City College of San Francisco

•  Community Learning Center, South San Francisco

•  Deer Valley High School, Antioch

•  Ohlone College, Newark & Fremont

•  Parkway Heights Middle School, South San Francisco

•  Ronald McNair Middle School, East Palo Alto

•  South San Francisco High School, South San Francisco

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About Bio-Community

Launched by the BayBio Institute in the Fall of 2010, Bio-Community: Building the Next Generation of Life Science Professionals is a network of life science industry volunteers and educators working together to enhance science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education in under-resourced middle schools, high schools and community colleges in Northern California. Bio-Community provides a mechanism to establish the critical partnerships between industry, community organizations and schools that are necessary to improve STEM education, teacher and student motivation. Join Us.