BioTC Oklahoma

Today, BioTC Oklahoma installed a Systec autoclave, a crucial addition to ensure proper sterilization and a safe training environment for Oklahoma’s biomanufacturing workforce. As we prepare to open in 2025, this marks a significant step toward hands-on education and industry collaboration. #BioTC #Biomanufacturing #STEM #Systec . . . Systec GmbH & Co. KG - The Autoclave Company

A week we’ve been highly anticipating! There’s been a ton of behind the scenes work to research, purchase, organize, and plan the receipt of all the incoming lab equipment. All culminating to this week and the expected arrival of our first, and LARGEST, piece of equipment, our autoclave. Also, a massive “Thank You” to Jacob Lingo, Jeremy Jackson, and Jacob Williams of Lingo Construction Services for their hard work and dedication to get us to this milestone!

YES! It’s that time again… ***Construction Update*** The BioTC Oklahoma BSL-2 training labs are rapidly nearing completion and we are just days away from receiving and installing our industry-specific equipment. It’s rather neat to watch the progress and see the many stages of completion on so many unique features. Like… 1) How many other biopharmaceutical training centers have an amphitheater immediately outside their back door? 2) Innovation Hall’s cafe/bar/coffee area is looking amazing! 3) The landscaping is really tying the whole campus together. The outside amenities on the Convergence OKC campus are going to be beautiful and highly inviting! Morning coffee outside on the shaded central promenade while taking care of emails? YES PLEASE! 4) OKC Innovation District’s Innovation Hall event space and conference rooms are spacious and many of the hi-tech presentation features are getting installed as we speak. 5) All training lab benchwork is installed and yet still tons of open floor space for the large industry-scale and industry-specific equipment that will be installed in those areas. Thank You Lingo Construction Services for the amazing progress and world-class build!

"Following a national search, the board of the Oklahoma City Innovation District has named local economic developer Jeffrey Seymour, CEcD as the organization’s new president and CEO." Read the full press release here ---> https://lnkd.in/gCVCpUnj

Jesse McCool has done a phenomenal job as CEO and we can't to see what this next chapter holds for Wheeler Bio, Inc. as they continue to evolve!

YES! It’s that time again… ***Construction Update*** The BioTC Oklahoma BSL-2 training labs are rapidly nearing completion and we are just days away from receiving and installing our industry-specific equipment. It’s rather neat to watch the progress and see the many stages of completion on so many unique features. Like… 1) How many other biopharmaceutical training centers have an amphitheater immediately outside their back door? 2) Innovation Hall’s cafe/bar/coffee area is looking amazing! 3) The landscaping is really tying the whole campus together. The outside amenities on the Convergence OKC campus are going to be beautiful and highly inviting! Morning coffee outside on the shaded central promenade while taking care of emails? YES PLEASE! 4) OKC Innovation District’s Innovation Hall event space and conference rooms are spacious and many of the hi-tech presentation features are getting installed as we speak. 5) All training lab benchwork is installed and yet still tons of open floor space for the large industry-scale and industry-specific equipment that will be installed in those areas. Thank You Lingo Construction Services for the amazing progress and world-class build!

For Day 2 of OKC Innovation District’s Innovation Week, let us give you just a quick little recap of what all you can see in this short 360 degree viewing of today’s activities… OKCPS 7th graders: Lifting fingerprints. Making slime. Flying flight simulators. Fighting fires via VR. 3-D printing. Creating electrical circuits. Optimizing paper airplane design. Playing a blood typing card game. Locating organs in the human body. Swabbing their mouths for cheek cells. Staining microscopic specimens for viewing. Viewing cells on a microscope. Viewing microbiological water bugs from lake samples on microscopes. Gowning for GMP cleanrooms. Using pipettes. Operating a robot. Flying drones. And generally having a TON.OF.FUN! 😜

Day 1 of OKC Innovation District’s Innovation Week saw a full house. Over 400 OKC Public School 7th graders mingled with over 30 industry and academic booths with hands-on STEM activities. 🔬🧪🧫🧬 BioTC Oklahoma interacted with so many curious and eager minds. Two more days of even more STEM fun ahead of us, but Day 1 was a massive success! #stemisamazing HUGE THANK YOU to all of the sponsor and volunteers that make this possible every year. 👍

Going on right now… OKC Innovation District‘s Innovation Week “Preview Night” at the Science Museum Oklahoma. OKC Public School teachers got a preview of the booths that 1,200 of their 7th graders will get to experience this week. First time for BioTC Oklahoma to participate and we partnered with Nikon Instruments. The kids will get to swab their cheeks, transfer the sample to a microscope slide, stain their specimen with a pipette and dye, and then view their cheek cells digitally on Nikon’s microscopes. Other booths have flight simulators and legos and drones and robotics and… so many cool STEM activities. All represented by local companies and organizations that have many future jobs/careers for these kids right here in Oklahoma! #stem #innovation #biotc

Stay tuned to find out how BioTC Oklahoma partners with Nikon for Innovation Week 24’.