High School: Lighthouse Community Charter School located in Oakland, CA.
Teacher: Becca Friedland
Unit: Genetic Engineering
Activity: The students did bacterial transformation using a plasmid pKiwi. The protein produced by this plasmid is green under visible light but glows a bright green under UV, very similar to the color of Kiwi!
Manufacturer: City College of San Francisco's BTEC 14A course
Faculty: Dr. Goli Afshar.
Product: LB Agar and LB/Amp plates.
High School: Abraham Lincoln High School, San Francisco, CA
Teachers: Richard Gin, Rosanna Mariotti, Gianne Souza
Unit: Genetics
Activity: The students did bacterial transformation using pGLO. The protein glows green under UV and require arabinose as an inducer.
Manufacturer: Laney College
Faculty and project coordinator: Professor Doug Bruce and Alan Yee
Product: LB plates, LB/amp plates, LB/amp/ara plates
Map of high schools receiving products will be available soon.
In the 2016-17 school year, these schools received LB plates from the pilot project
Piedmont High (EB)
Burton High (SFUSD)
Redwood High - Marin
Balboa High (SFUSD)
HS in Oakland
Galileo HS (SFUSD)