Nano-to-Bio Summer Camp - NCA&T

North Carolina A&T State University hosted seventeen high school students who took part in a week-long summer camp to improve their math, science and technical skills and to expose them to careers in related fields. Through a combination of lectures, presentations, lab tours and laboratory experiments, the students learned fundamentals of tissue engineering and carried out college-level lab work. Activities included C2C12 Stem Cell Culturing, Skin Model Synthesis, Mechanical Testing Experiments and Yeast Toxicity Assays.

The camp was conducted as an educational outreach component of a National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center for Revolutionizing Metallic Biomaterials. The ERC is a collaboration between NCA&T, University of Pittsburgh, University of Cincinnati and Hannover Medical School to develop metal biomaterials for use in orthopaedics.

Similar camps are conducted every summer at the University of Pittsburgh through a collaboration with the Pittsburgh Tissue Engineering Initiative.

For more information:
http://www.ptei.org

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Tissue Engineering
• Science
• Education
• Outreach
• North Carolina A&T
• Pitt
• PTEI

[beastinMIA]

haha.... good times at nano to bio camp