The workshops are designed primarily for high school teachers, but all educators are welcome. In the past, we have also had participants from educational organizations, government, and nonprofits doing work related to STEM education.

Our hybrid workshops can accommodate up to 50 participants per two-week session.

$400 per teacher for each part, which includes all online platform materials with on-demand life-time access to the course content, a copy of the BioBuilder textbook (new teachers in Part 1), and a lab kit that will be sent to the teacher’s school during the workshop.

When 2 or more teachers sign up from one school the cost is $350 per teacher, with full access for each teacher to the course content, a book for each teacher (new to Part 1), and one lab kit sent to the school during the workshop.

Each part includes:

• 5 hours of self-paced lectures, readings and assignments to complete over a 2 week period
• Slide decks to download for teaching and learning;
• A social engagement platform to interact with other teachers and BioBuilder’s instructors
• A copy of BioBuilder’s textbook when new teachers sign up for Part 1
• A Lab Kit sent to participant’s school;
• Two half-days of synchronous lab training to prep and run each lab, available as a recording if needed
• Certificate of Completion;

We have a rolling admissions process. Workshops are limited to 50 teachers and attendance is reserved on a first-come, first-served basis. Admission requires payment of tuition as the time of registration.

Part 1: Eau That Smell: Register Here

Part 2: What a Colorful World: Register Here

We do not have scholarships available at this time.

To complete registration, participants must pay the tuition fee by credit card. If you require a purchase order payment, please reach out to us at info@biobuilder.org.

Registration may be cancelled if no materials have been sent to the participant’s school and no time has been spent on the learning platform.

BioBuilder Essentials lectures are led by Dr. Natalie Kuldell and Dr. Rebekah Ravgiala and Ms. Jo-Anne Purdy.

Dr. Natalie Kuldell is the Founder and Executive Director of BioBuilder. Natalie has taught for more than a dozen years in the Department of Biological Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is a highly regarded educator who develops discovery-based curricula drawn from the current literature to engage students in structured, reasonably authentic laboratory and project-based experiences. She studied Chemistry as an undergraduate at Cornell, completed her doctoral and postdoctoral work at Harvard Medical School, and taught at Wellesley College before joining the faculty at MIT in 2003.

Dr. Rebekah Ravgiala teaches Biology and Advanced Placement Biology at Tyngsborough High School in Tyngsborough, Massachusetts. She holds a B.A. in Biology and a doctorate in Mathematics and Science Education. She has been actively involved in the BioBuilder community since 2011, leading a BioBuilderClub team, and serving as a member of its Board of Directors. She is a recipient of the ASBMB Fostering K12/University Partnership Grant and the AMGEN Excellence in Science Teaching Award.

We anticipate that participants will spend 5 hours completing the online coursework and another 3 hours of lab work (1.5 hours each day)

BioBuilder is a registered PDP provider in Massachusetts.

If you are a teacher in a different state, please inquire with us about ways to receive state credit for your workshop.

Yes. We require that all participants agree to our community Code of Conduct. Review the Online Code of Conduct here: https://bit.ly/BB-Code-of-Conduct.

We sure do. It’s described here: https://biotechbuilder.org/training/

Please email your question to info@biobuilder.org and we’ll get back to you.