Don't Panic - This Is the Hitchhiker's Guide to BioBuilder
Tue Dec 30 2025
A year-end reunion with artists, educators, and students shows how curiosity becomes practice, projects, and careers across bioart, education technology, diagnostics, and materials science. We share real tools, honest challenges, and clear next steps for learning and building.
• Bioart as living practice and display challenges
• Automation shaping creative and scientific workflows
• At-home and classroom biotech kits scaling access
• Simulators and free curricula overcoming logistics
• Bioplastics, biomanufacturing, and practical AI modules
• Student paths into labs, diagnostics, and publishing
• Double majors and interdisciplinary momentum
• Moving from competitions to peer-reviewed research
• AI’s risks and value in authentic learning
• Materials science pivots from first principles
If you're listening to this and you're a student wondering if you belong in science, you do. If you're a teacher wondering if this work matters, it does. Keep asking questions, keep building, keep being curious.
Learn more about BioBuilder's programs for students, educators, and industry professionals here 👉 https://biobuilder.org/
And follow BioBuilder on social media:
https://www.facebook.com/BioBuilderFoundation/
https://twitter.com/SystemsSally
https://www.youtube.com/@BioBuilder
https://www.instagram.com/systems_sally/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/16132078
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A year-end reunion with artists, educators, and students shows how curiosity becomes practice, projects, and careers across bioart, education technology, diagnostics, and materials science. We share real tools, honest challenges, and clear next steps for learning and building. • Bioart as living practice and display challenges • Automation shaping creative and scientific workflows • At-home and classroom biotech kits scaling access • Simulators and free curricula overcoming logistics • Bioplastics, biomanufacturing, and practical AI modules • Student paths into labs, diagnostics, and publishing • Double majors and interdisciplinary momentum • Moving from competitions to peer-reviewed research • AI’s risks and value in authentic learning • Materials science pivots from first principles If you're listening to this and you're a student wondering if you belong in science, you do. If you're a teacher wondering if this work matters, it does. Keep asking questions, keep building, keep being curious. Learn more about BioBuilder's programs for students, educators, and industry professionals here 👉 https://biobuilder.org/ And follow BioBuilder on social media: https://www.facebook.com/BioBuilderFoundation/ https://twitter.com/SystemsSally https://www.youtube.com/@BioBuilder https://www.instagram.com/systems_sally/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/16132078