Live Blog: Arizona's Bioscience Roadmap
Welcome to the Flinn Foundation Bio Blog where you will receive the latest news throughout 2025 (and beyond) on the next iteration of Arizona’s Bioscience Roadmap.
The Roadmap is the nation’s longest-running, statewide bioscience strategic plan. Bookmark this page for regular updates on the biosciences in Arizona and the development of the new Roadmap coming this fall.
Live Blog: Arizona's Bioscience Roadmap
News and Updates
Report offers snapshot of Arizona high school bioscience programs
April 04, 2007
The Flinn Foundation, in conjunction with Salt River Project, has issued "Building the Bioscience Pipeline," a 28-page "snapshot" of Arizona high school bioscience offerings. In addition to providing an overview, the report includes a number of recommendations to improve current…
April 27 deadline to apply for Lemelson-MIT InvenTeams grants
April 02, 2007
Teams composed of high school students, teachers, and mentors have the opportunity to receive grants up to $10,000 to research and develop an invention. InvenTeams was launched in 2002 as a way to excite high school students about science, math,…
How math is taught in U.S. schools is under scrutiny; here’s what’s at stake
April 02, 2007
[Source: eSchool News] — In a downtown hotel in New Orleans in mid-January, nearly two dozen math experts from around the nation gathered to report on their progress toward recommendations that could shape the future of math instruction in U.S.…
Parents, teachers, kids speak up on ed tech
April 02, 2007
[Justin Appel, Assistant Editor, eSchool News] — For the second year in a row, students and teachers who responded to a national survey on educational technology expressed a strong desire for schools to focus more on the integration of technology…
Students from 40 Arizona schools compete at UA in math, science
April 02, 2007
[Source: Heidi Rowley, Tucson Citizen] — Six hundred students from Arizona gathered during the weekend to participate in science and math competitions ranging from launching bottle rockets to designing a roller coaster. Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement Day is an annual…
Arizona ‘doing everything right,’ BIO chief says
April 02, 2007
Though not yet a major player in the biosciences, Arizona is “doing all of the right things” to attract industry and become a national force in the biosciences, said James C. Greenwood, president and CEO of the Biotechnology Industry Organization…
4 young scientists head to N.M. for fair
March 24, 2007
[Source: Valarie Potell, Arizona Daily Star] — Four Southern Arizona high school students are headed to Albuquerque for an international science fair after first-place finishes in the Southern Arizona Regional Science and Engineering Fair. More than 1,500 student science projects…
