STEM Education - Amgen Biotech Experience (ABE) Program
This year, we are very fortunate to have Amgen Foundation and Chinese University of Hong Kong to sponsor our senior form Biology students to participate in Amgen Biotech Experience (ABE) Programme in our school Biology Lab. We believe that innovative STEM education programs will maximize our students’ learning of knowledge and skills that can be applied to relevant biomedical fields.
Globally, the program has impacted nearly 850,000 students to date. The Amgen Biotech Experience (ABE) enable students to gain hands-on experience with many of the same techniques that biotechnology researchers use to produce cutting-edge human therapeutics including Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) for diagnostic purposes, DNA gel electrophoresis for analytic purposes, and Recombinant DNA technology for producing the next generation of medicine.
We incorporated the ABE program into our school-based HKDSE and GCE Biology curriculum with the objective of engaging our students in an exciting educational experience. Through this innovative science education program, our students are introduced to the importance of scientific discovery through a molecular biology learning experience. This will help our students to connect core science concepts to real-world applications.
