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Teacher Training
Quality education begins with enabling teachers.

In February 2007, the iBIO Institute, in partnership with iBIO, the National Biotechnology Institute and the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, sponsored and conducted three free Teacher-Leader Workshops in Skokie, Carbondale and Champaign to help teachers integrate biotechnology lessons into classrooms.

75 educators from over 40 schools, including 26 from the Chicago metro area participated in these workshops which were directed at middle or high school teachers. Each full-day session provided teachers with the skills, strategies, and knowledge to engage students in understanding the promises and challenges of biotechnology, and also supply them with free teaching materials for their classrooms.

iBIO Institute is currently assessing the need for future teacher professional development sessions.

For more information about iBIO Institute teacher training activities, please call 312.422.1111

iCON Awards
The first annual iCON Awards event will be held October 3, 2007 at the Four Seasons Hotel at 120 E. Delaware Place in Chicago.

iBIO Institute iCON Awards were developed to recognize the important role of education, research, and training in fostering growth and building the next generation of Midwest biotechnology and life sciences innovators and leaders. These awards celebrate the achievements of the most inspired academic, civic, and business leaders who nurture education, training, and scholarship in the life sciences in Illinois.

The iCON Knowledge Builder Award honors an educator who demonstrates exemplary teaching in science at grades 6-12, and who has positively impacted students’ understanding of the promise and challenges of biotechnology. This individual is a resource for peers, and a model of how to incorporate biotechnology into the classroom.

Click here to nominate an educator for the Knowledge Builder Award: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=r869vnOv1qfEN7ow_2fFz1Fw_3d_3d

The iCON Innovator Award honors a research/scientist within the life sciences community who is acknowledged by his or her peers as a leader in the contemporary teaching of and scholarship in biotechnology and its related sciences. The award also recognizes those young scientists who demonstrate leadership in the life sciences and who conduct research that is anticipated to enhance economic development in Illinois.

Click here to nominate a researcher/scientist for the Innovator Award:http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=02bDCVy8O0Xby_2boKMHhcHA_3d_3d

For more information about the iCON awards, please call 312.422.1111.

More coming soon.