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Biomimicry and BioEngineering
sustainability, Design Challenge, Blog, clever, internship Jim Bruner 6/2/24 sustainability, Design Challenge, Blog, clever, internship Jim Bruner 6/2/24

Biomimicry and BioEngineering

The door to the biodome has been plaguing me. But my 10-year-old bioengineering intern came up with an ingenious design based on a dick’s wing.

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1521-2023, Bioengineering, Blog, Design Challenge, Energy, Farming Tips, Garden Tips, Infrastructure, News, Public Speaking, Recycle, Renewables, resource, Science, sustainability, Systems 8/19/23 1521-2023, Bioengineering, Blog, Design Challenge, Energy, Farming Tips, Garden Tips, Infrastructure, News, Public Speaking, Recycle, Renewables, resource, Science, sustainability, Systems 8/19/23

BioEngineering Summer Camp 2023 Guest Blogs

These are two guest blogs written by middle school brothers for my last bioengineering summer camp. Their drawings!

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BioChemistry, Bioengineering, Blog, Design Challenge 6/11/23 BioChemistry, Bioengineering, Blog, Design Challenge 6/11/23

Design Challenge: Build a Covalent Atom

In this design challenge, students must understand valence shields, atoms and covalent bonds to show phases of matter.

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Design Challenge: Birds vs Mammals vs Insects vs Bacteria
BioTech, Blog, Design Challenge Jim Bruner 5/26/23 BioTech, Blog, Design Challenge Jim Bruner 5/26/23

Design Challenge: Birds vs Mammals vs Insects vs Bacteria

In this design challenge we will .look at four unique life forms on an urban farm. What do they have in common, how are they different? What do they need?

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Bioengineering, BioTech, Blog, Design Challenge, Garden Tips, Infrastructure, internship, resource, Science, Systems 3/6/23 Bioengineering, BioTech, Blog, Design Challenge, Garden Tips, Infrastructure, internship, resource, Science, Systems 3/6/23

Design Challenge: Interview for Your Future Job

In this design challenge we will play a word association game to create a road map for a future career.

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Design Challenge: Build a Gate
Bioengineering, BioTech, Blog, Design Challenge, Garden Tips, Infrastructure, resource, Systems 3/6/23 Bioengineering, BioTech, Blog, Design Challenge, Garden Tips, Infrastructure, resource, Systems 3/6/23

Design Challenge: Build a Gate

in this design challenge: build a gate we discovery all the design constraints for proper fences and gates to keep animals safe.

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BioRenewables Lesson Plans
Bioengineering, Blog, Design Challenge, Lesson, Lesson Plan, resource, Science 3/6/23 Bioengineering, Blog, Design Challenge, Lesson, Lesson Plan, resource, Science 3/6/23

BioRenewables Lesson Plans

BioEngineering Camp 2023 five day lesson plans with lesson, activity, challenge and presentation data. For teacher use at Mezzacello

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Bioengineering, BioTech, Blog, Design Challenge, Garden Tips, Infrastructure, resource, Science, Systems 3/4/23 Bioengineering, BioTech, Blog, Design Challenge, Garden Tips, Infrastructure, resource, Science, Systems 3/4/23

Design Challenge: Reframe a Problem

In this design challenge we pretend to be encountering an elephant blind. How does the way we look at a problem change us?

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Bioengineering, BioTech, Blog, Design Challenge, Infrastructure, Renewables, resource, Systems 3/5/23 Bioengineering, BioTech, Blog, Design Challenge, Infrastructure, Renewables, resource, Systems 3/5/23

Design Challenge: Mastering Fear

In this design challenge we explore the intersections of time, biology, emotion, and courage by creating an emotion hourglass.

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Bioengineering, BioTech, Blog, Design Challenge, Infrastructure, resource 3/5/23 Bioengineering, BioTech, Blog, Design Challenge, Infrastructure, resource 3/5/23

Design Challenge: Duct Tape Trivia

In this duct tape design challenge, students must resaerch and create a solution using duct tape and data. No ducks harmed!

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Bioengineering, BioTech, Blog, Design Challenge, Farming Tips, Science, Systems 3/5/23 Bioengineering, BioTech, Blog, Design Challenge, Farming Tips, Science, Systems 3/5/23

Design Challenge: DIY Chicken Feeder & Waterer

Students must find a way to combine three simple items to create an efficient way to feed and water animals.

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Bioengineering, BioTech, Blog, Design Challenge, Energy, Garden Tips, Infrastructure, Renewables, resource, Systems, Tips 3/2/23 Bioengineering, BioTech, Blog, Design Challenge, Energy, Garden Tips, Infrastructure, Renewables, resource, Systems, Tips 3/2/23

Design Challenge: Lewis Structure Spelling Bee

In this design challenge, we introduce atomic symbols, quantities, and bonds in physics, chemistry, and biology.

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Design Challenge: The Alcohol Family
Bioengineering, BioTech, Blog, Design Challenge, Infrastructure, resource Jim Bruner 2/17/23 Bioengineering, BioTech, Blog, Design Challenge, Infrastructure, resource Jim Bruner 2/17/23

Design Challenge: The Alcohol Family

This design challenge explores the alcohol molecules and the basics of the Lewis Structures. Using magnets and steel rods.

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Design Challenge: Why Do Animals Panic?
BioTech, Blog, Design Challenge, Farming Tips, resource 2/17/23 BioTech, Blog, Design Challenge, Farming Tips, resource 2/17/23

Design Challenge: Why Do Animals Panic?

In this Design Challenge we learn what motivates common farmyard animals and how we can better treat them.

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Bioengineering, BioTech, Blog, Design Challenge, Farming Tips 2/17/23 Bioengineering, BioTech, Blog, Design Challenge, Farming Tips 2/17/23

Design Challenge: The Large And The Small

This Design Challenge we explore how scale affects the way life, light, and reality interact. We sort the scales here.

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Bioengineering, BioTech, Blog, Design Challenge, Farming Tips, Garden Tips, resource, Science, Systems 2/17/23 Bioengineering, BioTech, Blog, Design Challenge, Farming Tips, Garden Tips, resource, Science, Systems 2/17/23

Design Challenge: Build a Stomach

In this Design Challenge we will explore how living animals digest food and create energy and wastes by creating a stomach.

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Bioengineering, BioTech, Blog, Design Challenge, resource 2/10/23 Bioengineering, BioTech, Blog, Design Challenge, resource 2/10/23

Design Challenge: Build an Animal Tractor

In this design challenge we ask students to build a system to keep animals safe and healthy. With many options.

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Bioengineering, Blog, Design Challenge, Infrastructure, resource, Systems 2/10/23 Bioengineering, Blog, Design Challenge, Infrastructure, resource, Systems 2/10/23

Design Challenge: Six Simple Machines

In this Design Challenge we create a game of reducing objects into the simple machines that comprise all machines.

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Bioengineering, Blog, Design Challenge, Lesson, Lesson Plan, resource, Science 2/8/23 Bioengineering, Blog, Design Challenge, Lesson, Lesson Plan, resource, Science 2/8/23

BioEngineering Lesson Plans

BioEngineering Camp 2023 five day lesson plans with lesson, activity, challenge and presentation data. For teacher use at Mezzacello

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Project BioTech Arts and Crafts
Alternative Gardens, Blog, Design Challenge, Farming Tips, Garden Tips, Lesson Jim Bruner 12/21/22 Alternative Gardens, Blog, Design Challenge, Farming Tips, Garden Tips, Lesson Jim Bruner 12/21/22

Project BioTech Arts and Crafts

These are the arts and crafts activities we will be employing in the BioTech Summer Camp in 2023. Diverse, fun and engaging.

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