BioHack Academy call for partner labs
Pieter Waag
After many years of running an open bio lab, I believe it is fair to conclude that most people that come into our space are seeking information about the basics of biotech: how to grow something, from what kind of material. So after numerous Do It Together Bio workshops and unconference style open events at the Open Wetlab, we decided to answer these questions in a structured, intense and fun program: the BioHack Academy.
We choose to distribute the content right from the beginning to a small number of partners. In Sao Paulo, Barcelona and Rome we found local coordinators to be brave enough to accept the challenge. Others joined on their own by remote. All the tuition materials, designs and code is made publicly available on our github syllabus, because we want to build our own capacity as well as that of the DIYBio community as a whole: http://biohackacademy.github.io
For the next improved edition we are seeking additional partner labs. Please email me on pie...@waag.org or fill in the form linked below in case you are interested in teaching hackers, designers, artists, engineers, scientists that methods, skills and philosophy of biohacking!
Call for Partners Labs - deadline May 8th, 2015
BioHack Academy is a unique international 10-week program, during which participants build and use their own biolabs. It is being held for the first time in the Spring of 2015, in collaboration with partners in South-America, USA and Europe. We are now seeking new partner labs for the second and improved series.
Participants learn how to grow their own fuel, food, filaments, farmaceuticals, fragances, fungi and much more funky bio stuff. Whether it’s a new type of bio ink, bio polymer or bio fuel, we’ll show you how to grow it and share the results with others. By the end of the course your Fablab, Maker/Hackspace or whatever machine shop will be turned into a biolab.
Download the information brochure
In June, all partner lab coordinators are invited to join a one-week bootcamp. We will review the Academy curriculum, test the tools, equipment and protocols and perhaps most importantly get to know each other. You will also receive all the electrical components for the machines and samples of the biological strains.