Georgia Bio Education

2012 Georgia Competition
for the BioGENEius Challenge

Georgia Bio is hosting a statewide competition to select finalists to the U.S. National BioGENEius Challenge in Boston, MA, June 17 – 21, 2012. The Georgia competition will be held at the Georgia Science and Engineering Fair (GSEF), March 29- March 31, 2012. Winners of the Georgia competition will receive a travel award to compete as a finalist in the U. S. National BioGENEius Challenge with students from around the country.

Deadline to register March 23, 2012.
Click here for more information.

Share Your Excitement About Science!

Volunteer to Visit a Classroom

Willing to reach out to students and teachers about science, careers and your profession?
Click here to register in our visiting scientist resource bank

Bioscience Curriculum Resource Links

At the 2011 Georgia Science Teachers Association meeting, experts from the NIH, CDC and Emory Center for Science Education provided a roadmap to web-based bioscience curriculum resources.
Click below for their presentations and links:
NIH-SEPA Presentation
(Beck Presentation.pdf)
Emory Center for Science Education Presentation (Marstellar Presentation.pdf)
Centers for Disease Control Presentation (Cordell Presentation.pdf)

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Teacher's Guide Now Available for
Introduction to Biotechnology

A Teacher's Guide for launching Introduction to Biotechnology, course number 25.568, for either science elective or CTAE credit has been developed by Jonathan Wetherington, PhD, an educator at Brookwood High School who helped develop the course standards and piloted the curriculum in the 2009 school year. This 85-page guide covers everything from lab set-up, equipment and consumables, pacing guide, and detailed suggestions for teaching the course units.
Click here for the Teacher's Guide PDF file.

Georgia HS Biotech Course Boosts Student, Parent Interest in Science

The first evaluation of the new Georgia high school biotechnology curriculum reveals the course has had a positive impact not only on student attitudes about the science, but also on their parents’ attitudes toward biotechnology.
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Georgia Bio initiated an education and workforce development program in January of 2007 to ensure the regional workforce has the skills, training and knowledge to meet its current and future needs.
Our vision is that “Georgia’s pipeline of knowledge workers is internationally acclaimed as a key competitive advantage to the regional life science industry.”
Our strategies include:

Developing resources that enhance life science teaching, learning and career awareness and experiences for Georgia’s emerging workforce;
Strengthening educational pathways focused on critical occupations noted as difficult to attract, train and retain by regional employers;
Sharing training and human resource needs to effectively build critical mass among the state’s employers;
Facilitating communication and interaction between regional educators and employers.

2012 Georgia Competition for the BioGENEius Challenge