Siegel Family Endowment Fall Case Study Series: Biodesign Challenge

Fall Case Study Series: How Four Grantees are Building Enduring and Frontier Skills

High school students don’t generally have the opportunity to imagine and create new applications for the latest advances in biotechnology as part of their standard coursework. Biodesign Challenge is an international education program and competition that partners high school and college students with scientists, artists, and designers to create projects that envision, create, and/or critique transformational applications in biotechnology. Biodesign Challenge’s After-School (BDC After-School) initiative works with high school instructors from underserved communities to prepare students to compete in the Biodesign Challenge. 

Through these activities, Biodesign Challenge encourages students to explore ways that biotechnology and biodesign principles and processes can be leveraged to address some of the world’s most pressing problems. In doing so, Biodesign Challenge is equipping a new generation of leaders with the skillsets and mindsets that they will need in order to contribute substantially to emerging and frontier industries.

Read the case study on Biodesign Challenge After-School here.