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Fellows learn new processes in Forsyth Tech’s Analytical and Molecular Skills Development Laboratory.

HANDS-ON OPPORTUNITY

I “I earned my biology degree a decade ago. Today I’m teaching Advanced

Placement biology to some of the brightest STEM students in our school.
There are few opportunities for teachers like me to update my skills in an
advanced laboratory setting and to stay abreast of new applications and techniques,”
says BIFP Fellow Peter Kim, a teacher and academy director at Northwest Cabarrus
High School.
Enter the BIFP Lab Skills Bootcamps, designed specifically for high-impact STEM
faculty and returned veterans who commit to sharing their learning experience with
their students and their colleagues.
In BIFP’s bootcamps, Fellows become the students. Over the three-week residential
program, Fellows complete ten days of hands-on lab training ranging from a
half-day to five full days at five different state-of-the-art training facilities across
North Carolina. Fellows integrate these laboratory experiences with insights from
industry into industry-relevant interdisciplinary teaching approaches.

BIFP PARTNER PROFILE
At Rowan-Cabarrus Community College’s 62,000 square foot Biotechnology Training Center in the NC
Research Campus in Kannapolis NC, Fellows learn new chemical analysis techniques by using
state-of-the-art chromatography and mass spectrometry equipment in their own experiments.

Beyond updating my own science skills, bootcamp leaders were excellent and
interesting teachers who demonstrated how I could teach my own students.
I’m excited to share my experience and these
new applications with my students and colleagues.