ABE Turkey Teacher Wins Mini Grant for the Second Time!

We wholeheartedly congratulate our ABE Turkey teacher, Ayşegül Tanrıverdi, for her success in the Global Mini Grant program for the second time!

This special project focuses on improving and troubleshooting low-cost electrophoresis device designs developed by students in the field of biotechnology. By combining engineering applications with biotechnology, it promotes entrepreneurship and creative applications outside the laboratory. This project deepens students' innovative and hands-on learning experiences, preparing them to become future leaders in biotechnology.

We are confident that Ayşegül Tanrıverdi will continue to inspire with her dedicated work. As ABE Turkey, we celebrate our teacher's great success and wish her many more successful projects!

Here are the ABE teachers and their projects that have been awarded mini-grants worldwide:

Ayşegül Altun Tanrıverdi (ABE Turkey)

This mini-grant helps students improve and troubleshoot their low-cost electrophoresis device designs. This expands a project focused on engineering applications in biotechnology, supporting and encouraging entrepreneurship and hands-on work outside the laboratory.

Chiara Garulli (ABE Italy)

This project further develops Chiara Garulli's Master Teacher Fellowship project sections "Discovering Lactase" and "Discovering Lactase Persistence." It transforms the case study into hands-on experiments and activities, providing students with an enhanced methodological approach to studying enzyme kinetics.

Aidan Johnson (ABE Australia)

This mini-grant supports a new kit that extends Dr. Johnson's project to a new school. The project helps students see what Rosalind Franklin did with X-ray crystallography and how diffraction patterns provide crucial information about molecular structures, especially DNA.

Gilda Nappo (ABE Italy)

This mini-grant supports activities that expand the MTF project "Green Explorers: Research and Action for Environmental Protection." Through this project, middle and high school students will explore bioremediation, where microorganisms are used to clean up oil spills and contaminated soils, phytoremediation, where plants are used to absorb pollutants from the environment, and biofuels, which offer renewable energy alternatives to fossil fuels.

Susan Senior (ABE Australia)

This mini-grant supports an extension unit for students aged 14-16. This unit will adapt ABE resources and LabXchange animations for effective out-of-lab classroom use and provide plastic plasmid models for a hands-on simulation of recombinant plasmid production. These activities and materials will also help teachers unfamiliar with biotechnology meet curriculum requirements by 2026.

Congratulations again to this year's award winners.