Biotech workshops promote excitement in classroom

A recent workshop at Moorpark College taught secondary school instructors the latest trends in biotechnology. Now the teachers can introduce the topics to their students at local middle and high school campuses.

The program’s goal is twofold: Provide teachers with exercises that excite and engage students, and offer professional development to enhance and expand their technical skills and knowledge of biotechnology.

“In the U.S. we have a significant need to increase the number of students graduating in science, technology, engineering and math. In Ventura County we have a burgeoning startup industry in biotechnology and other hightech industries,” said Moorpark College biology professor Marie Panec, who led a team of educators in creating and teaching the workshops. “Our community needs to have programs to develop a work force trained in these areas.”

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