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 Bay Area, California in bioengineering and human-centered design.
The BioJam leadership team centers Bay Area educators and community organizations and is supported by Stanford undergraduates, PhD students, and professors in STEM. Our program starts with a 2-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, biomaterial recipes, circuitry components and live plants. |
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2023 BioJam Camp
BioJam 2023 was a 3-week camp in collaboration with Migrant Education Region XVI (Monterey County Office of Education). We served over 30 migrant high school students from Salinas and South Monterey County.
Our camp was taught across several locations, including Everett Alvarez High School (Salinas, CA), Digital NEST (Salinas, CA), Johnson Canyon Landfill (Gonzales, CA), Natividad Creek Park (Salinas, CA), and Stanford University (Palo Alto, CA).
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 culminated in community engagement projects were teens teach what they learned in interactive workshops at Stanford University (following an overnight trip) and to elementary school migrant students in Salinas, CA.
Our curriculum was developed by Melissa Ortiz, Leticia Hernandez, Corinne Takara, Robin Putney-Mendenhall, Pagé Goddard, Daniel Sumano, and Callie Chappell. Camp was taught by Melissa Ortiz, Leticia Hernandez, Jose Garcia, Pagé Goddard, Simone Evans, Karrin Tennant, Anastacia Del Rio, Erin Floranda, Briana Martin-Villa, Paloma Vazquez, Callie Chappell, and Caroline Daws.
Our camp was taught across several locations, including Everett Alvarez High School (Salinas, CA), Digital NEST (Salinas, CA), Johnson Canyon Landfill (Gonzales, CA), Natividad Creek Park (Salinas, CA), and Stanford University (Palo Alto, CA).
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 culminated in community engagement projects were teens teach what they learned in interactive workshops at Stanford University (following an overnight trip) and to elementary school migrant students in Salinas, CA.
Our curriculum was developed by Melissa Ortiz, Leticia Hernandez, Corinne Takara, Robin Putney-Mendenhall, Pagé Goddard, Daniel Sumano, and Callie Chappell. Camp was taught by Melissa Ortiz, Leticia Hernandez, Jose Garcia, Pagé Goddard, Simone Evans, Karrin Tennant, Anastacia Del Rio, Erin Floranda, Briana Martin-Villa, Paloma Vazquez, Callie Chappell, and Caroline Daws.
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