Each workshop is designed for 20 teachers. No fee is charged for these workshops. Grants from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Grant from the U.S. Department of Energy. Each participant receives a teachers packet and DNA for the classroom.
Teachers also learn micropipetting and how to solve a solution mystery.
In 1997, this workshop was held at ICOS Corporation, a Bothell-based biotechnology company where teachers saw how biotechnology is carried out in the workplace. It comprises a summer institute for selected teachers to participate in research, develop new lab curricula and the opportunity to check out kits throughout the year. In this workshop participants sequence portions of the human genome, analyze their data and explore ethical issues. Students participate in sequencing small unknown portions of the human genome and their results get entered into the HGP database. Students have been sequencing a possible gene for deafness.