Team:CAPS Kansas/bioclub

CAPS Kansas: BioClub

Fostering Lab-Focused STEM Education

The Kansas based Caps iGEM team works in the community to promote future generations of scientists by hosting a series of indepth, fun, and engaging science experiments and activities. These activities are oriented towards current middle school students who are interested in biology. This program has developed into the current Middle School Bioclub (MSBC). As a part of MSBC, we strongly believe that the best way to have the younger generation exposed to science is to fully immerse them. In MSBC we emphasize the use of creative hands on experiments such as the Elephant Toothpaste and Penny Alchemy labs, to teach fun and relatively complicated science principals in a fun and engaging way.Thanks to the advanced technology provided by the CAPS program we can achieve this immersion. It is our goal to influence a wave of new and revolutionizing future scientists. These events are usually themed towards a fun topic and we select science experiments related to the topic. Then, either the middle school students perform the experiments or we perform them in a demonstration depending on the experiment. Afterwards, we explain the science behind the experiments to the middle school students to promote curiosity in science. We have had three middle school BioClub events with our iGEM team members this year and plan to continue these events.


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