About BABEC

The Bay Area Biotechnology Education Consortium (BABEC) is a regional network of local education partnerships based in the San Francisco Bay Area.  BABEC is dedicated to

• increasing student understanding of key concepts in molecular biology, and
• raising student awareness of applications of the derived biotechnology.

The impact of biotechnology on health, food, and the environment will increasingly influence all of our lives and require informed decision-making by students as they become adults.

In the process, BABEC is enabling systemic reform in an important area of science education by helping teachers bring relevant, thought-provoking, hands-on activities into the classroom.

To accomplish these educational goals, BABEC and its partnerships work with teachers, educators, scientists, industry and academia to develop, disseminate, implement and sustain contemporary laboratory-based biotechnology curricula that capture the interest and challenge the capabilities of high school students. 

For More Information...

Teenagers Doing Real Science, 
Photos of Bay Area students engaged in BABEC labs.

High school students to follow their double-helix dreams, 
A report on BABEC, published in the San Francisco Chronicle, 5/21/01. 

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