Resources
This page will be continually updated as we move through our journey!
HIGH SCHOOL INTERNSHIPS, OPPORTUNITIES, & OPEN LECTURES
BioArtBot Meet Up Workshop Grow art with bacteria! March 7th 11:00 am -1:00pm (PST)
London Design Biennial Due April 1st This is an art and design thinking exhibit. If you submit, submit to the Young Person's Brief. They extended the deadline. I have mentored four teens who submitted and have been accepted into this. Please email me if you would like help submitting your idea.
NASA Internships (Fall internship applications are due July 9th) This link is to both high school and college internships. Once you register, you will see the options for high school. Requirements: U.S. Citizen, Cumulative 3.0 GPA (on a 4.0 scale), Full-time students (high school through graduate),16 years of age at the time of application.
Kurt Giessler Foundation Grants
https://climatemuseum.org/careers-and-internships (January 10th deadline)
NASA: Von Karman lecture on JPL and Origami, 7:00 pm, Thursday, January 14th. Ustream: http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2 (link to an example they shared-Starshade)
CRISPR Teen zoom free workshop at Genspace. Sat 16 & 17th of January in the morning. It will be led by teens! Registration required.
Pandemic Diaries by Grow by Ginkgo Bioworks (see below flyer), Feb 1st deadline
Pesticide Awareness (see below flyer)
NASA Internships (Summer internship applications are due March 5th) This link is to both high school and college internships. Once you register, you will see the options for high school. Requirements: U.S. Citizen, Cumulative 3.0 GPA (on a 4.0 scale), Full-time students (high school through graduate),16 years of age at the time of application.
London Design Biennial Due April 1st This is an art and design thinking exhibit. If you submit, submit to the Young Person's Brief. They extended the deadline. I have mentored four teens who submitted and have been accepted into this. Please email me if you would like help submitting your idea.
NASA Internships (Fall internship applications are due July 9th) This link is to both high school and college internships. Once you register, you will see the options for high school. Requirements: U.S. Citizen, Cumulative 3.0 GPA (on a 4.0 scale), Full-time students (high school through graduate),16 years of age at the time of application.
Kurt Giessler Foundation Grants
https://climatemuseum.org/careers-and-internships (January 10th deadline)
NASA: Von Karman lecture on JPL and Origami, 7:00 pm, Thursday, January 14th. Ustream: http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2 (link to an example they shared-Starshade)
CRISPR Teen zoom free workshop at Genspace. Sat 16 & 17th of January in the morning. It will be led by teens! Registration required.
Pandemic Diaries by Grow by Ginkgo Bioworks (see below flyer), Feb 1st deadline
Pesticide Awareness (see below flyer)
NASA Internships (Summer internship applications are due March 5th) This link is to both high school and college internships. Once you register, you will see the options for high school. Requirements: U.S. Citizen, Cumulative 3.0 GPA (on a 4.0 scale), Full-time students (high school through graduate),16 years of age at the time of application.
CRITICAL CONTEXT
BIOTECHNOLOGY AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
Biomimicry ( a video introduction)
Extreme Weather Events/Perspectives & Safety Impacts in Agriculture (a UC Davis report)
Grow by Ginkgo Magazine: Nature Issue
Strawberries + Pesticides
Crop spraying a greater danger than passive smoking to children living near the fields
90% Americans have pesticides in their bodies/Dirty Dozen pesticide crops- the Nation Article
Pesticides, Heat and Climate Change
BIOTECHNOLOGY AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
Biomimicry ( a video introduction)
Extreme Weather Events/Perspectives & Safety Impacts in Agriculture (a UC Davis report)
Grow by Ginkgo Magazine: Nature Issue
Strawberries + Pesticides
Crop spraying a greater danger than passive smoking to children living near the fields
90% Americans have pesticides in their bodies/Dirty Dozen pesticide crops- the Nation Article
Pesticides, Heat and Climate Change
RESEARCH
UCSC iGEM (a UCSC iGEM team explores a bioplastic replacement for agricultural plastic)
EcoFAB ( a cross-functional team of biologists, geologists, and ecologists from Berkeley Lab to provide critical new insights into ecosystem processes through the creation of controlled model ecosystems.)
iBiology (Biology lesson resources from world experts) (plant related videos)
Agricultural Microbiome Research Coordination Network (RCN)
Materiom (biomaterial recipe site)
Plenty: Verticle Farming of Strawberries
Paletero Library Cart
OTHER
fabricacademy (interesting organization that focuses on intersection of technology, textiles and biology)
BioGraphic (resource of cool biology videos focusing on research and discoveries)
iNaturalist (phono app to identifying plants and animals)
Stanford BioJam Camp kit page (some cool teen created videos on biomaking there)
The Biodesign Challenge ( what we will be submitting to!)
COMPANIES TO FOLLOW
MycoWorks mycelium leather substitute
Ecovative mycelium packaging and building materials
AtLast mycelium bacon substitute
GrowBio offshoot of Ecovative, retail mycelium inoculated substrate
Pseudofreeze Universidad de los Andes BDC team. Portable refrigeration units that refrigerate naturally using a novel bionano compound able to freeze at higher temperatures and at a faster rate by harnessing energy from proteins.
AlgiKnit textile fiber made of algae
Foldscope paper microscope
OtherLab an independent research & design lab pairing creativity with rigor to bring new solutions in renewable energy and robotics to market.
PAST NEST MAKERSPACE BDC TEAMS
GIY BioBuddies Grow it yourself toy kit. A BDC Team
CocoBucha a BDC team that explored biogrown clothing concepts from locally source materials
LABS TO FOLLOW
Prakash Lab at Stanford, a Bioengineering lab focused on frugal science tool development
Compliant Mechanism Department BYU and Maker Resources
Self Assembly Lab MIT
Wyss Institute Harvard
Metafluidics a MIT Media Lab Project
The Studio NASA/JPL
TOOLS TO EXPLORE
Tinkercad (online CAD tool to design forms for 3D printing)
SculptGL (online CAD tool to design organically shaped forms for 3D printing)
Microbit (is a pocket-sized computer that introduces you to how software and hardware work together. It has an LED light display, buttons, sensors and many input/output features that you can program and physically interact with. )
PubChem an open chemistry database at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).