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BioJam 

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Welcome to BioJam

Growing community through art, culture, and biomaking
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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

BioJam Camp

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What?

Why?

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.
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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. 
  • Engage teens in explorative biodesign as a platform for them to share and connect to broader communities in biodesign conversations.
  • Create a model for university/high school mentorship that results in further collaborations with education departments of science museums.
  • Create a framework for how science can be shared with under resourced communities using a framing that is mindful of equity, access and anchoring to culture.
  • Put into action the goals and ideas generated at the Learn.Design.Compute symposium
  • Seed potential Biodesign Challenge teams.​
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2022 BioJam Camp

BioJam 2022 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, Lorenzo Barranco, Anthony Zelensky, Paloma Vazquez, Pagé Goddard, Callie Chappell, and Caroline Daws. 
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Press

Check out our recent article in ISSUES in Science and Technology, Bioengineering Everywhere, for Everyone and podcast episode in ​The Ongoing Transformation
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    • 2021 Summer Camp >
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    • 2020 Summer Camp >
      • Camp Summary
      • KIT Contents
      • Guest Speakers
      • Day 1 2020 Camp
      • Day 2 2020 Camp
      • Day 3 2020 Camp
      • Day 4 2020 Camp
      • Day 5 2020 Camp
      • Day 6 2020 Camp, Monday 7/20
      • Day 7 2020 Camp, Tuesday 7/21/20
      • Day 8 2020 Camp, Wednesday 7/22/20
      • Day 9 2020 Camp, Thursday 7/23/20
      • Day 10 2020 Camp, Friday 7/24/20
    • 2019 Summer Camp >
      • Gallery >
        • Camp Prep
        • Day 1
        • Day 2
        • Day 3
        • Day 4
      • About 2019
      • Day 1
      • Day 2
      • Day 3
      • Day 4
      • 2019 Camp Participants
  • Resources
    • Resources for teens