ABE's 1 Millionth Student Celebration

After more than 30 years, the Amgen Foundation and ABE Program Office are excited to celebrate the ABE program reaching over 1 million students worldwide. We are celebrating this impressive milestone on 9 September 2024.

What started at a single school in Thousand Oaks, California, has grown to reach 27 sites within 16 countries. Most recently the program has spread to Brazil, Mexico, and South Africa. Please celebrate this milestone with us.

We are honored to share this program with so many inquisitive, hard-working students around the globe, especially those who have traditionally had less access to hands-on science.

How Did We Get Here?

Though ABE now reaches 90,000 students and 1,500 teachers each year, the program had humble beginnings. In 1990, leaders at Amgen set out to help teach high school students in their community about biotechnology. Working with local teachers and using the latest tools and science, they created ABE. The program was rolled out to just 20 schools that year but had grown to 30 schools by the school year’s end.

Now, 34 years later, more than 3,600 science educators have participated in ABE, bringing biotech education to over 1,000,000 students worldwide, and we’re still growing.

You can read more about the celebration at https://amgenbiotechexperience.com/abe-1mth-student-celebration