Lead: Dr. Merredith Portsmore

The overarching goal of Aim 3 is to develop shared educational resources to broaden educational opportunities across institutions and communicate with the community at large.

Develop training courses for industry, undergraduate, K-12, minority groups, graduate, outreach, factsheets, videos.

Year 1 Accomplishments
Pre-College

  • Prototype of ethical design talk about Cell Ag
  • Tested in Pe-College Workshop in July 2022
  • Ready for Version 1.0 Publication for September 2022
  • Adaption Shojin Meat set-up for outreach activities
  • Testing in late Summer/Early Fall 2022

University- Level

  • CellAg Course
    • Submitted for approval at Tufts
    • Materials shared with partner organizations
  • Undergraduate Student Competition
    • In-Progress – discussions about how it pairs with coursework to best prepare students to submit substantive solutions
  • Student Club
    • Student club established – planning speakers and discussions for Summer and Fall 2022
    • Supporting pre-college work

Industry

  • In-progress – Working to identify potential topics for 2022/2023 workshop

Communication

  • YouTube Infrastructure completed (with Tufts University approval)
  • Generated list of topics for recording
  • First recording August/September 2022
  • Identified key webinars for recording

Year 2 Plans
Pre-College

  • Dissemination of Cell Ag Design Talk (website, ASEE)
  • Development of outreach activities using images from research data
  • Continued development of hands-on Shojin Activities

University- level

  • Development of infrastructure for sharing course modules across institutions
  • Exploring possibility of inter-institutional courses
  • Expansion of student club activities

Industry

  • In-progress – Working to identify potential topics for 2022/2023 workshop

Communication

  • Continue work across YouTube Categories (Explainer Videos, Lab Skills, Webinar Recordings