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N.C. Biotechnology Center Hosting Teachers During A Special Marine Biotech Workshop |
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Written by David Horn
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(WILMINGTON) -- Science teachers from schools across North Carolina are in something of a summer camp this week. The teachers are participating in a four-day marine biotechnology workshop sponsored by the North Carolina Biotechnology Center. The event is being hosted at the UNC-Wilmington Center for Marine Science.
Teachers hope to bring the knowledge and experience they gain from the workshop back to the classroom. It is the first time in the Biotechnology Center’s 23-year history of providing summer teachers’ workshops that one of the sessions will focus on the vast potential of sea-dwelling organisms, or their components, to solve human problems. "This workshop gives otherwise experienced science teachers from across North Carolina access to one of the least-understood but potentially richest sources of biodiversity on the planet,” said Bill Schy, Ph.D., education and training program manager at the Biotechnology Center." The four-day session will include a trip on the intra-coastal waterway aboard the UNCW research vessel, the R/V Cape Fear, and an excursion to Brunswick Community College’s Aquaculture Technology Program. |
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Last Updated ( Monday, 29 June 2009 )
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