Colorado Bioscience Institute

Programs: Workforce development: providing professional development, trainings programs, internships as a form of workforce recruitment and development.

executive leadership program: designed to enable ceos to build better businesses by learning to resolve strategic problems, drive change through their organization, design and motivate effective teams and communicate plans and strategy to get to the next level of growth in the venture.

research expense for teachers expenses: the institute seeks to provide teachers with practical knowledge and hands-on lab experience to enhance their content understanding, classroom practice and bridge to the real world skills students will need. The research experience for teachers (ret) program, provides middle and high school teachers real-world laboratory experience and helping them translate their research experiences and new knowledge into classroom activities. Ret is an intensive program implemented five (5) days per week over four (4) weeks during the summer. Throughout the program the teachers spend about 130 hours with a research and development company working on real world projects and 30 plus hours in teacher professional development. The goal is to help build long-term collaborative partnerships between 7th-12th grade teachers, industry scientists, and the local university research community by involving the teachers in real bioscience research and helping them translate their research experiences and new knowledge into classroom activities. By providing experiential opportunities, along with professional development, classroom implementation planning time and authentic materials, ret will be making a tremendous impact in colorado's 7th-12th grade science classes.