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COMMUNITY OUTREACH

SHAD

For the past three years, QGEM outreach has worked in partnership with the SHAD summer enrichment program at Queen's University. We have been able to introduce molecul ar biology to high school students to spark interest while simultaneously sharing our own enthusiasm for learning, a concept SHAD aims to promote. QGEM volunteers worked alongside a team executive member to mentor the students through a two-day workshop covering techniques from lab safety and pipetting to DNA miniprep, restriction digest, and gel electrophoresis. The students used these techniques to determine the culprit in a murder mystery. While waiting for the lab results to finish, participants partook in a mini-lecture on blood components and were guided through a tour of the Queen's Anatomy Museum. With members of QGEM having gone through the SHAD program themselves, the team was extremely excited to introduce this workshop and the hands-on lab experience to a new group of budding scientists. Our workshop continues to be a deemed a highlight of the high school student's SHAD experience.

QGEM 2015 Public Seminar

Gotta write something here about the public seminar...

Two images here: the poster and the article in the Whig