Have you ever wondered what SDGs are? If you have heard of them before how can you incorporate them in E-ship courses? The PSU Biotech Boardroom Pitch competition will show you how undergraduate and graduate students from different majors and colleges across the University came together as teams in the microbial biotechnology course: Biotc/Micrb 416 offered by the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department in the Eberly College of Science.
Students over the course of the semester started with identifying one or more of the 17 sustainability goals of the United Nations. They then applied their hard skills in the natural and physical sciences along with soft skills to find solutions. The proposed solutions were then presented in individual elevator pitches with the intent to form teams of people with similar ideas and solutions.
The next steps were the warm-up pitches named PSU Biotech Associate and PSU Biotech Supervisor before their final pitch: PSU Biotech Boardroom. Throughout the semester, after the team formation, students were accompanied by alumni mentors and judges from industry. Access to the PSU Biotech Boardroom Pitches will be available to people that RSVP by November 11th, 2021 at 5 pm. The official judging by alumni from industry will occur on November 12th between 2:30 and 3:20 pm. The judges will have the opportunity to ask each team questions and time permitting will announce 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners.
Entrepreneurs, E-Ship Course Instructors, STEM Educators, and anyone with an interest in SDGs, entrepreneurship, Stem education and/or just curiosity is welcome to attend!
Registration is required for this event. To attend this event, please email Suzanne Kijewski at
sdk5252@psu.edu by November 11th, 2021 at 5:00 pm with your name, affiliation and preferred email.
This event is presented by
Penn State Eberly College of Science.
