It was truly a day for celebration. The Final Assembly on March 9 was a huge success! Whether you participated at LabCentral in Cambridge, Massachusetts or virtually from the comfort of your home or school, thank you for sharing your team's journey with the BioBuilder community!
To recap, each team gave a "lightening talk", a 1-minute talk accompanied by 1 slide which summarized their project. We then had 2 poster sessions during which electronic poster boards displayed team projects.
Here is a link to the presentation which includes all of the lightning talk posters. You may also view the full team posters on this Dropbox link.
We heard so many positive comments from attendees, saying how impressed they were with the students - both their capability to take on such in-depth projects, to their ability to communicate what they had learned.
Thank you for your participation in BioBuilderClub! We are so grateful to have such an amazing community of teachers, mentors, and students!
Please complete your final assessment surveys by March 31.
All who complete the surveys will be entered in a drawing for a $100 Amazon gift card! Surveys have been emailed to you, and are also posted under Team Resources.
Study: "Active learning increases student performances in science, engineering, and mathematics"
In this interesting study, the authors looked at the impact of active learning in STEM courses versus traditional lecture methods.
"To test the hypothesis that lecturing maximizes learning and course performance, we meta-analyzed 225 studies that reported data on examination scores or failure rates when comparing student performance in undergraduate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) courses under traditional lecturing versus active learning."
The results showed that students in classes with traditional lecturing were 1.5 times more likely to fail than were students in classes with active learning. Read thefull study here.
BioBuilder's mission seeks to fill the need for more active learning!
"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."
― Marie Curie
What a great year! Thank you for your participation in the BioBuilderClub community! We look forward to re-connecting when the Club resumes in Fall. Until then, we wish our teams and students continued success!
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Final Assembly!
