IntroductionCapstone Course

Capstone Year

The Futurelab+ capstone is a culminating year designed to support students’ entrepreneurial drive, creativity, and innovative spirit. Students will explore and research a topic about which they are passionate, applying the knowledge they gained from Genentech’s Futurelab+ syllabi.

Project Starters, Project Exemplars, Journal, Rubric, and more

All the materials necessary to guide students through a capstone project which brings together all their Futurelab+ learnings.

Project Resources

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Project Management Guide

This project management guide will help capstone educators frame student project milestones and expectations in a given school year.
Project Guide.PDF, 1.5MB
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Student Capstone Journal

This student capstone journal will serve as a guide to help students meet the expectations and goals of their project and as a record of their work throughout the capstone experience.
Student Journal.PDF, 590KB
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Project Starters

Find thirteen in-class ideas for students. Ideas include microbial bioremediation, antibiotic sensitivity testing, biomedical engineering design challenge, and many more!
Project Starter.PDF, 40KB
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Capstone Rubric

This rubric is designed to evaluate the student capstone project, serving as a guide to evaluate how students meet the expectations and goals of their project.
Rubric.PDF, 76KB

Project Exemplars

Example project ideas to get students thinking about and preparing for their own capstone year.

Unit 1
Capstone Exemplar

Innovating Biotech

Students explore the creation of a wearable tech prototype and a video presentation showing how this technology could help patients by using biomarkers as indicators of health.
Project Exemplars.PDF, 1MB
Unit 2
Capstone Exemplar

Health Equity

Students explore how education and access to healthcare impact health outcomes.
Project Exemplars.PDF, 1MB
Unit 3
Capstone Exemplar

Innovating Disease Treatments

Students explore the research and collaboration by doctors and biomedical scientists in discovering the cellular mechanisms that threaten human health.
Project Exemplars.PDF, 1MB
Unit 4
Capstone Exemplar

Scientific Breakthroughs

Students example the role AI plays in the future of developing longevity enhancing drugs and how education can be leveraged to impact healthy decision making to improve life expectancy.
Project Exemplars.PDF, 76KB
Unit 5
Capstone Exemplar

Solution Seeking Microbes

Students explore innovation of new biotechnological tools to change the way we fight deadly pathogens and to treat or prevent genetic diseases.
Project Exemplars.PDF, 1MB
Unit 6
Capstone Exemplar

Alternative Proteins

Students explore how genetic engineering creates new solutions in farming, health, medicine, research and conservation.
Project Exemplars.PDF, 1MB
Unit 7
Capstone Exemplar

Plant to Pharmaceutical

Students explore high biodiversity areas that potentially contain many other plants with medicinal properties that are undiscovered by modern medicine.
Project Exemplars.PDF, 1MB
Unit 8
Capstone Exemplar

Community Science

Students will consider how a community can implement a data collection plan using appropriate DNA ID techniques that can be used to amplify or sequence the DNA.
Project Exemplars.PDF, 1MB

CAPSTONE MASTERCLASS SERIES

Meet Capstone educators to learn more about the next generation of diverse science and health professionals.

Connect Virtually with a Biotech Professional

Career Connect is a powerful new resource from Discovery Education designed to connect your classroom with the industry, skills, and people who power our world. Connect virtually with Futurelab+ volunteers from a wide range of careers in the biotech industry. Invite a volunteer to share their career journey or provide real-world insights on the latest innovations in science to inspire your students to explore new possibilities.

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