{"250871":{"#nid":"250871","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Petit Institute Hosts Annual Buzz on Biotechnology High School Open House","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOn Saturday, October 26th, the Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioscience \u0026amp; Bioengineering hosted its annual open house for high school students to come and learn more about the cutting-edge world of biotechnology at Georgia Tech. A capacity crowd of over 400 students, parents and teachers came from 40+ Atlanta area schools to take part in engaging, hands-on scientific demonstrations, tours of state-of-the-art Petit Institute laboratories\u0026nbsp; and biotechnology-focused seminars such as stem cell engineering.\u0026nbsp; They even had a visit from Buzz the GT mascot! \u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe program was first created in 2003 by the Petit Institute\u0027s graduate student group, the Bioengineering \u0026amp; Bioscience Unified Graduate Students (\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.bbugs.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EBBUGS\u003C\/a\u003E), to expose young people to biotechnololgy and get them excited about science.\u0026nbsp; Some of the innovative science and engineering demonstrations included \u0022Ribosomal Evolution,\u0022 \u0022Stem Cell Separation,\u0022 \u0022The Cardiovascular System,\u0022 \u0022Hold a Human Brain,\u0022 \u0022Fun with Liquid Nitrogen,\u0022 \u0022Cabbage Acids and Bases,\u0022 \u0022Protein Folding,\u0022 \u0022Functional Finger\u0022 and \u0022Viscoelasticity.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Atlanta area students came to learn about biotechnology at Georgia Tech and get excited about science"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAtlanta area students came to learn about biotechnology at Georgia Tech and get excited about science\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Atlanta area students came to learn about biotechnology at Georgia Tech and get excited about science"}],"uid":"27195","created_gmt":"2013-11-04 12:54:46","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:15:14","author":"Colly Mitchell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-10-28T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2013-10-28T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"250881":{"id":"250881","type":"image","title":"Buzz on Biotechnology demonstration","body":null,"created":"1449243813","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:43:33","changed":"1475894931","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:48:51","alt":"Buzz on Biotechnology demonstration","file":{"fid":"198102","name":"buzz_demo_2013.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/buzz_demo_2013_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/buzz_demo_2013_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":907975,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/buzz_demo_2013_0.jpg?itok=Rm_T_MbI"}}},"media_ids":["250881"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.ibb.gatech.edu\/","title":"Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.bbugs.gatech.edu\/","title":"http:\/\/www.bbugs.gatech.edu\/"}],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB)"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"248","name":"IBB"},{"id":"6500","name":"Petit Institute"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:colly.mitchell@ibb.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EColly Mitchell\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["colly.mitchell@ibb.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}