Welcome to a guest post by Patricia. Patricia is a Grade 8 student in Ontario, Canada and a volunteer with Markham’s youth-led STEM outreach group, STEM Kids Rock. She has been discovering genetic engineering at-home after discovering and exploring CRISPR for a school science fair project (She won her Regional's Bronze!). Here, Patricia talks about her journey to becoming a Genetic Engineering Hero...

“Why don’t you do something with coding?” I asked.  “This is coding,” she told me. “The REAL coding. The genetic code.” 

Jim is a writer and the proud father of a science-loving teenage daughter. Jim has been discovering genetic engineering alongside his daughter and navigating what it means to be a parent at the forefront of Genetic Engineering at Home. Here, Jim shares his journey...