InnovATEBIO National Biotechnology Education Center

InnovATEBIO国家生物技术教育中心将解决为国家生物技术劳动力培养高技能技术人员的需求。为了实现这一目标，InnovATEBIO将在生物技术技术人员教育方面发挥领导作用，包括支持生物技术劳动力发展方面的发展和分享最佳实践。此外，该中心还将促进地方和国家生物技术产业的经济发展，并帮助加快生物技术及其相关领域的创新。该中心将专注于全国各地的生物技术技术人员教育，特别是加强高中和社区大学生物技术项目之间的联系。它将积极接触所有学生，包括妇女和来自经济困难、代表性不足的第一代大学和/或农村背景的学生。项目活动将促进合作和指导，以加快社区学院教师领导力的发展，并促进与行业的合作。该中心将与业界合作，使生物技术项目和提供这些项目的教育机构获得认可，以便整个生物技术社区看到教育项目的优点并重视它们。中心的评估活动将收集必要的信息，以了解生物技术教育的现状和该领域的未来趋势。为了服务于国家生物技术社区，InnovATEBIO将建立一个由教育工作者、学生、校友和行业合作伙伴组成的多元化网络，包括孵化器、贸易组织和专业协会。这些合作伙伴将协同合作，建立或改进技术人员教育计划，以使这些计划满足学生、机构、生物技术行业和支持他们的社区的需求。通过其外联活动，该中心将提高所有部门对生物技术领域的知识和认识。InnovATEBIO的一项主要活动将是开发供应链枢纽，吸引高中生和社区大学生生产和使用优秀实践生物技术教育所需的产品。另一项活动将开发开放的教育资源，将免费提供给全国各地的教育工作者。对教师的培训和指导将确保这些资源得到有效和广泛的利用。通过这些活动，InnovATEBIO将实现以下目标：(1)开发支持创新的协作基础设施，并迅速满足生物技术社区不断变化的需求；(2)协调和利用由ATE资助的生物技术项目的产出；(3)确定机会，建立伙伴关系和合作，以加速生物技术教育领域的创新；(4)监测和应对新兴生物技术行业和技术人员的趋势；以及(5)发展区域外联和指导基础设施，以使未得到充分服务的人群广泛参与生物技术实验室和相关新兴技术。该项目由高级技术教育计划资助，该计划专注于为推动国家经济的先进技术领域培养技术人员。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The InnovATEBIO National Biotechnology Education Center will address the need to educate highly skilled technicians for the nation's biotechnology workforce. Toward this goal, InnovATEBIO will provide leadership in biotechnology technician education, including support for development and sharing of best practices in biotechnology workforce development. In addition, the Center will promote local and national economic development of the biotechnology industry and help accelerate innovation in biotechnology and associated fields. The Center will focus on biotechnology technician education across the country, with a specific focus on strengthening the connections between high school and community college biotechnology programs. It will actively reach out to all students, including women and students from economically challenged, underrepresented, first generation college, and/or rural backgrounds. Project activities will foster collaboration and mentoring to accelerate development of community college faculty leadership and promote collaboration with industry. The Center will work with industry to gain recognition for biotechnology programs and the educational institutions that offer these programs, so that the entire biotechnology community sees the merits of educational programs and values them. The evaluation activities of the Center will gather the information needed to understand the present status of biotechnology education and the future trends in the field. To serve the national biotechnology community, InnovATEBIO will build a diverse network of educators, students, alumni, and industry partners, including incubators, trade organizations, and professional societies. These partners will work synergistically to build or improve technician education programs so that the programs meet the needs of students, institutions, the biotechnology industry, and the communities that support them. Through its outreach activities, the Center will increase knowledge and awareness of the biotechnology field across all sectors. A major activity of InnovATEBIO will be developing supply chain hubs that engage high school and community college students to produce and use the products necessary for an excellent hands-on biotechnology education. Another activity will develop open educational resources that will be available at no cost to educators around the country. Training and mentoring of faculty will ensure these resources are used effectively and broadly. Through these activities, InnovATEBIO will achieve the following goals: (1) develop a collaborative infrastructure that supports innovation, and promptly addresses the changing needs of the biotechnology community; (2) coordinate and leverage outputs from ATE-funded biotechnology projects; (3) identify opportunities to generate partnerships and collaborations that accelerate innovation in biotechnology education; (4) monitor and address emerging biotechnology industry and technician workforce trends; and (5) develop a regional outreach and mentoring infrastructure to broadly engage underserved populations in biotechnology labs and related emerging technologies. This project is funded by the Advanced Technological Education program that focuses on the education of technicians for the advanced-technology fields that drive the nation's economy.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.