2024 BIOME
Present your work
The 2024 BIOME is designed to bring together a supportive community of people sharing similar goals and challenges in participant-centric professional development. Participants will share resources, ideas, and advice based on their own experiences, and provide each other with feedback on materials or plans. Your contributions are critical to the success of this experience.
We invite you to share about educational resources, projects, and programs that demonstrate ways to support students. Materials can connect to and expand upon the BIOME theme of inclusive, diverse, equitable, and accessible communities in STEM classrooms. Workshop proposals are due May 10. WIP and Posters & Beyond submissions are due June 7.
There are several ways for you to share about your project during week (July 15-19) and we invite you to choose the level of participation that will work best for your goals and schedule. The participation options are summarized in the table with more information available below. Learn more about the schedule.
Work-in-Progress
Work-in-Progress Sessions (WIPs) are an opportunity to share early drafts of ideas and resources with colleagues for feedback. This concept is an adaptation of the Life Discovery Share Fair. Here's an example from the 2019 Summer Workshop on using Jupyter Notebooks.
How will WIP materials be shared?
WIP materials can be shared in several ways. You can choose to share your material publicly, publish it as an OER (and potentially version it later), or share it to a private Collection, accessible only to BIOME Institute participants.
When will WIP Sessions happen?
WIP Sessions will be held during Community Connections on KumoSpace.
Posters & Beyond
What does "Posters & Beyond" mean?
Posters & Beyond Sessions are an opportunity to share more finalized resources and invitations to collaborate. You can choose to share your work as a traditional poster or go "beyond" by including short video overviews, links to websites, and samples of resources. Here's an example from the 2020 BIOME Institute on the Ciliate Genomics Consortium, where they created a video to go along with their poster.
How will Posters & Beyond materials be shared?
All posters must be shared as QUBES resources, which are publicly accessible open educational resources. This will give your materials a Creative Commons license, citation, stable URL, DOI, metrics on views and downloads, and the option to version and adapt those materials.
When will Posters & Beyond be presented?
Posters will be available for participants to visit asynchronously and will be combined with WIPs into Topic Discussions during our synchronous week.
Submit a Posters & Beyond proposal
Discussion Bunch
What is a Discussion Bunch?
All BIOME participants will be placed in small, facilitated discussion groups, called Discussion Bunches. Bunches are intended to connect participants to each other and the BioQUEST community, much like the casual in-person discussions that take place over meals or with those you end up sitting near during a presentation. Bunches will meet during the summer to discuss the keynotes and other ideas and events at the BIOME.
When will Discussion Bunches happen?
Bunches will meet at particular times during the summer week.
Interactive Workshop
What do we mean by "Interactive Workshop"?
Interactive workshops are an opportunity to engage participants with your project during Workshop Week. Workshops must be interactive, hands-on experiences that engage participants in activities. Workshops should address the central theme, building scientific worldviews, or at least one of the subthemes (inclusive teaching, interdisciplinarity, or communicating science). A pre-workshop activity should also be provided for participants to complete before attending. Here's an example from the 2022 BIOME Institute on Avida-ED.
Workshops are not intended to be a 90-minute traditional presentation. Workshop staff are happy to work with you to ensure your workshop plan is appropriate for the BIOME audience.
How will workshop materials be shared?
As publicly as you wish. Materials can be restricted to BIOME participants only or posted as QUBES resources (OER). Different components of the workshop can also have different access levels. We do encourage you to be as open as possible.
When will workshops happen?
All workshops will have a scheduled 90-minute time slot during workshop week. Workshops will also be recorded for participants to review who could not attend synchronously.
Fall Working Group
What are working groups?
Working groups make up the final aspect of the BIOME Institute. During the Summer Session participants explore new resources and ideas to identify a project they would like to collaborate on during the fall semester.
Partner projects may facilitate working groups to pilot new ideas with faculty, support implementation of your resources, or work with a group of faculty to advance your project.
What's required of a facilitator?
Working group facilitators commit to:
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Offering an interactive workshop about your project to recruit participants
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Organizing, attending, and managing working group meetings and activities from September through November.
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Facilitating effective group communication
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Supporting the group in producing a final product shared to the BIOME
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Staying in communication with the BIOME organizers and providing reports about group activities
If you are already planning to run an FMN or Incubator in Fall 2024, that meets the requirement of facilitating a working group and you should default to the expectations as described in your MOU with BioQUEST.