07.18.2016 - By Life of the School
In Episode 3, I chat with Rebekah Ravgiala, Biology and AP Biology at Tyngsborough High School. She has been actively involved in the BioBuilder community since 2011. BioBuilder works to make Synthetic Biology accessible to high school and middle school students. Rebekah led a high school team to the iGEM competition in 2012 and was a pioneering leader of the BioBuilder BioDesign Club for high school students. She has been awarded the ASBMB Fostering K12/University Partnership Grant in 2014 and the AMGEN Excellence in Science Teaching Award in 2013. Rebekah has presented her hands-on teaching methods at many conferences and professional workshops as well as publishing in journals such as The Journal of Chemical Education. Rebekah is graduate of Saint Anselm College with a degree in Biology. She earned a doctoral degree in Mathematics and Science Education in 2003 from the University of Massachusetts, Lowell.