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아열대ㆍ열대생물유전자은행센터-WISET 사업단, ‘여고생 생명공학캠프’ 실시
Basic Course of Biotechnology Camp for Girls held

Jeju National University’s Subtropical & Tropical Organism Gene Bank held the first and second rounds of its educational program for female high school students on biotechnology, the university announced on Tuesday (June 22).

The educational program is named the Girls’ Biotech Camp and was jointly organized by the university’s WISET project team.

During the program, 61 high school students from local girls’ high schools received mentoring support from the university’s postgraduate students studying biotechnology.

The participants also took classes on the basics of biotechnology and participated in the extraction and observation of DNA.

The students responded to the survey after taking the classes, marking 4.8 out of 5 scores as the level of their satisfaction with the program.

The respondents especially pointed out that the research lab provided an opportunity to gain knowledge of biotechnological methods through experiments. The survey findings also show that the program encouraged female students to study the STEM field.