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
