This presentation was given at HI TEC 2025 in Minneapolis. Before the talk, we polled HI TEC attendees (n=29) to identify their favorite topics for hackathon teams to address. The top four topics were using AI, partnering with High Schools, student recruiting, and teaching automation. Sign up to ...
Would you like to work with colleagues across the United States to develop ideas for tackling challenges in biotechnology education? This is your chance to do it. InnovATEBIO is hosting a three day virtual hackathon Mon, June 29th - Weds, Jul 1st, 2026 and we would love to have you participate. Timeline: April - June 8th - Read through the project descriptions and apply to participate. Early June - We will send out acceptances, confirm your ability to participate, and assign applicants to teams. June 8th - 12th - We will set up Slack accounts, send Slack invitations to all confirmed ...
Faculty, industry scientists, and students are invited to apply to attend the 5th Antibody Engineering Hackathon, August 4-7th, 2025. This is a virtual event. There will also be a Pre-hackathon orientation Monday, July 14th, at 10 am PST on Zoom. Visit our website to learn about the projects and apply. This work is funded by grants from the National Science Foundation's Advanced Technological Education program (DUE 2055036 and DUE 1901984). This event is free. Read about previous Hackathons: Porter, S., Bryans, M., Vemu, S., Kamajaya, A., Ives, F., Dillman, A., Lannan, E., Mann, C., & Smith, T ...
I have been in research for a very long time. There is something exhilarating about uncovering information, and for me, particularly information that could help in the field of medicine. And even though that end result is important, the process of getting to the end result is also important, because ...
The presentation described hackathons and how hackathons can be used for curriculum development and community building in biotech and emerging technologies. Two hackathon projects were discussed: Antibodies and AI, and NISTCHO. Several resources have been created through this project and are ...
Welcome to the 2025 InnovATEBIO series of virtual ATE project talks. This series features leaders in biotechnology workforce education from across the US sharing their work on exciting projects funded by the National Science Foundation's Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program. The ATE program supports the education of technicians for the high-technology fields that drive our nation's economy. Each talk will be 20 minutes, followed by 15 minutes for questions and discussion. View the whole series of Spring 2025 ATE project talks. Talk: Using Hackathons to Catalyze Research Projects in ...
Welcome to the InnovATE BIO 2024 series of virtual ATE project talks. This series features leaders in biotechnology workforce education from across the US sharing their work on exciting projects funded by the National Science Foundation's Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program. The ATE program supports the education of technicians for the high-technology fields that drive our nation's economy. Our two speakers this week will talk about their experiences with project based learning and improving internships. Each talk will be 20 minutes, followed by 15 minutes for questions and ...
The Fourth Virtual Hackathon for Developing CURES in Antibody Engineering will be held August 5-8th, 2024 Visit our website to learn about the projects and apply. This work is funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation's Advanced Technological Education program ( DUE 2055036). This event is free and mostly virtual. Read about previous Hackathons: Porter, S., Bryans, M., Vemu, S., Kamajaya, A., Ives, F., Dillman, A., Lannan, E., Mann, C., & Smith, T. (2023). Igniting Creativity: Hackathons for Developing Undergraduate Research Projects in Antibody Engineering. Journal of Advanced ...
Welcome to the InnovATE BIO 2023 series of virtual ATE project talks. This series features leaders in biotechnology workforce education from across the US sharing their work on exciting projects funded by the National Science Foundation's Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program. The ATE program supports the education of technicians for the high-technology fields that drive our nation's economy. Our speakers this week will talk about their experiences with using hackathons to develop undergraduate research projects around antibody engineering and a labor market and skills analysis of ...
This article was written and contributed by Nelson Solares, a student participant in the 2022 Antibody Engineering Hackathon. This hackathon taught me that it is possible to create a community out of complete strangers and have meaningful conversations about our reality and how science influences that conversation.
Welcome to the second set of talks in the InnovATE BIO 2022 series of virtual ATE project talks. This series features leaders in biotechnology workforce education from across the US sharing their work on exciting projects funded by the National Science Foundation's Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program. The ATE program supports the education of technicians for the high-technology fields that drive our nation's economy. In these second two talks, we'll learn about the Wistar Institute's Biomedical Technician Training program and about using a hackathon to develop undergraduate research ...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Data Science Strategy, the National Center for Biotechnology and Information at the National Library of Medicine, and the Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Biological and Environmental Research invite you to apply to the virtual Petabyte-Scale Sequence Search: Metagenomics Benchmarking Codeathon. NIH’s Sequence Read Archive now makes more than 14 petabytes of data available in the cloud. To make full use of this data, the scientific community needs high-performance search tools that can work efficiently up to the petabyte scale. The focus ...
