Welcome to BioJam
Growing community through art, culture, and biomaking
Mission
Our mission is to engage teens through their own creativity and culture in bioengineering/biomaterial design and create pathways for them to share their learning in their home communities.
Vision
Our vision is to:
1. Nurture teen knowledge, confidence, and curiosity as they grow into science practitioners and educators
2. Provide a research and training opportunity for scientists
3. Create accessible entry points for community engagement in biotechnology
1. Nurture teen knowledge, confidence, and curiosity as they grow into science practitioners and educators
2. Provide a research and training opportunity for scientists
3. Create accessible entry points for community engagement in biotechnology
BioJam Camp
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BioJam is a summer academic program that engages high school students from underserved communities in the Salinas Valley with bioengineering and human-centered design.
The BioJam leadership team centers educators and community organizations and is supported by Stanford undergraduates, PhD students, and professors in STEM. Our program starts with a 2-3 week summer camp and continues with summer activities in which teens develop community engagement activities based on what they learned during camp. Our focus includes grown biomaterials, environmental justice, and sustainable agriculture. |
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BioJam Camp
BioJam camp in 2020-2024 engaged migrant students through a collaboration with Migrant Education Region XVI (Monterey County Office of Education). We have served over 30 migrant high school students each year from Salinas and South Monterey County.
Activities included discussing ancestral and Indigenous land stewardship practices, exploring the idea of a circular economy, trying sustainable foods, developing curiosity using paper microscopes (Foldscopes), creating biocircuits, learning about waste practices, reading about environmental justice activists, and building aquaponics and hydroponics systems. Camp has also included field trips to Digital NEST (Salinas), Johnson Canyon Landfill (Gonzales), Ouroboros Farms (Half Moon Bay), Rancho Cielo (Salinas), Natividad Creek Park (Salinas).
Camp culminated in community engagement projects were teens teach what they learned in interactive workshops at Stanford University or UC Santa Cruz (following an overnight trip) and to elementary school migrant students.
Activities included discussing ancestral and Indigenous land stewardship practices, exploring the idea of a circular economy, trying sustainable foods, developing curiosity using paper microscopes (Foldscopes), creating biocircuits, learning about waste practices, reading about environmental justice activists, and building aquaponics and hydroponics systems. Camp has also included field trips to Digital NEST (Salinas), Johnson Canyon Landfill (Gonzales), Ouroboros Farms (Half Moon Bay), Rancho Cielo (Salinas), Natividad Creek Park (Salinas).
Camp culminated in community engagement projects were teens teach what they learned in interactive workshops at Stanford University or UC Santa Cruz (following an overnight trip) and to elementary school migrant students.
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