Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, USA.
Biochem Mol Biol Educ. 2024 May-Jun;52(3):332-339. doi: 10.1002/bmb.21820. Epub 2024 Feb 13.
Biotechnology students entering the workforce often struggle in their application of textbook knowledge to build the solutions that we see in science and health fields today. Some students may be naive to what a job in the biotechnology industry can encompass. Students should graduate having a firm grasp of the prospects of their field and have the confidence to begin contributing to the growth of the industry. For this, it is necessary for students to be able to start practising applications in their coursework before they graduate. A competition titled "Biotech BioBrawl" was incorporated in the University of Central Florida's Methods in Biotechnology (MCB4721C/MCB5722C) course agenda during the semester of Fall 2021. This competition challenged students to harness innovation and applied science in a group setting that led to the development and pitch of an original idea to a panel of judges with various biotechnology industry experiences.
生物技术专业的学生在将课本知识应用于构建我们今天在科学和医疗领域看到的解决方案时，往往会感到困难。一些学生可能对生物技术行业的工作内容缺乏了解。学生毕业后应该对自己所在领域的前景有一个坚定的把握，并具备开始为行业发展做出贡献的信心。为此，学生有必要在毕业前在课程作业中开始实践应用。在 2021 年秋季学期，佛罗里达中央大学的生物技术方法（MCB4721C/MCB5722C）课程大纲中纳入了一项名为“生物技术生物大战”的竞赛。这项竞赛要求学生在小组环境中利用创新和应用科学，最终向一组具有各种生物技术行业经验的评委展示和推销一个原创想法。
