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Bioscience Career Pathways

Bioscience Career Pathways. Goals Increase student interest in and exposure to biosciences through existing science courses; Launch biotechnology high school courses; Address articulation issues to eliminate repetition of content;

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Bioscience Career Pathways

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  1. Bioscience Career Pathways • Goals • Increase student interest in and exposure to biosciences through existing science courses; • Launch biotechnology high school courses; • Address articulation issues to eliminate repetition of content; • Utilize pilot experience to guide replication in other schools.

  2. Increasing Student Interest in Biosciences New standards-aligned tasks for middle and high school science curricula • Developed in partnership with GDOE, educators and industry; • Piloting and testing in four counties in IC; • First teacher training session held Oct. 4 for 17 teachers; • Presented and received GDOE- SEAC approval November 12; • Finalizing “Georgia context” sections; • Teachers are suggesting improvements and reconvening Feb 21.

  3. Oil Spill Investigation – environmental monitoring Nuclear Transplants – animals in research, cloning, transgenics Artificial Heart Valves – tissue engineering Find the Gene – gene mapping to identify disease Fish Sticks – population genetics and ecology Labradoodle Inc. – business basics 7th grade life science

  4. Gel Electrophoresis – DNA fingerprinting, forensics ELISA – simulated Hepatitis B outbreak, diagnostics DNA Extraction – genetic engineering basics; food safety and monitoring Enzymes as Catalysts – industrial enzymes BioBiz Competition – biotech entrepreneurial simulation High school biology

  5. High School Biotechnology Courses High school biotech courses being piloted in Barrow, DeKalb, Gwinnett and Walton County as either science or CTAE courses; Connected to GBTI technical college programs; Courses on schedule to launch fall 2009; Biotechnology science courses and CTAE pathways being piloted through partnership with GBTI

  6. Cohort of ten teachers and GBTI working together • First meeting of teacher cohort Nov 15; next session January 24 • Defining training needs and tasks to meet launch goals • Additional content training needs, • Curriculum development, and planning, • Student recruitment, • Equipment and supplies • Teacher cohort includes additional schools planning implementation in 2010

  7. Dissemination of the IC Project • Building Biotech Bridges Conference – San Diego, CA October 30. 2008 • Association for Career and Technical Education – Charlotte, NC, December 4, 2008 • Georgia Science Teachers Association – session proposed, Savannah, Feb 12 – 14, 2009 • BIO 2009 – Workforce Track session accepted, Atlanta, GA, May 2009

  8. Innovation Crescent Industry Network Purpose • Guide and shape the Work Ready Region initiative to best meet its needs, • Will articulate a strategy and recommendations to build and maintain a total certified workforce in the Innovation Crescent. • Develop a set of detailed recommendations to the Governor by Spring 2009 that specifies: • existing industry training needs, • funding requirements and mechanisms, • how the industry network would manage implementation of these recommendations.

  9. ICIN Approach • Individual CEO-level meetings summer 2008 • Immucor • Merial, • Normaco, • Quintiles, • Sciele, • Solvay Pharmaceuticals, • UCB • Roster includes: above list plus Ciba Vision, Emory/Yerkes, MDDG, Altea Therapeutics, Aderans, Elan, American Red Cross • Operate as standing committee under Georgia Bio

  10. ICIN Status • First Meeting held October 8 with 8 of 12 companies attending • Senior HR Representatives • Key workforce concerns voiced • Attracting experienced workers • Finding employees who have basic hands-on knowledge • Finding sales/marketing skills with medical/science background • Retaining talent in research organization vs. private industry due to pay scales • Understanding global environment/cultural issues • Need to convince hiring managers of transferable skills/experience/compatibility of other occupations

  11. ICIN Status • Second Meeting held Dec 9 • Agenda • Work Ready and Job Profiling • GOWD Survey • Input on key questions • What training do you currently do for new hires or existing workers which might be shared across the industry? (consider not just entry level) • What are the short- and long-term workforce needs for the next one to five years, and how does the applicant pool compare with these needs? • Compare short- and long-term needs to existing applicant pool. What are the most extensive weaknesses and strengths? What positions do you have trouble filling? • What is your recruitment strategy and how should that be integrated into an overall workforce development plan? Can common recruitment or outplacement challenges be addressed across the industry? • What can the state do to meet industry workforce needs? • How can this group help create a critical mass of companies?

  12. Feedback from second meeting • Strong interest in Work Ready; scheduling one on one sessions with Work Ready Job profilers • Discussion • Pandemic preparedness • Need to access knowledge of local training/solutions providers • Need ongoing communication between universities and industry • Smaller companies also need inclusion into ICIN • Focus on common developmental areas which would improve workforce • Globality • Macro themes: business awareness, project management, change management, • Specific training: cGMP, quality, regulatory overviews onsite or online, FDA updates • Internships with a single point of contact • Recruitment of talent – sharing and networking of higher level talent pools; helping each other market the region in recruitment; networking on outplacement • Next meeting late January • Reviewing cumulative responses to key questions and surveys • Discuss initial recommendations

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