Benjamin Franklin Institute of Expertise, Ginkgo Bioworks to Launch Biotechnology Manufacturing Associates Diploma

Initiative supported by way of a $100,000 grant from Kargman Household Basis

BOSTON, Dec. 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Benjamin Franklin Institute of Expertise (BFIT), a personal non-profit school providing reasonably priced schooling for individuals looking for technical and commerce careers, introduced as we speak a partnership with Ginkgo Bioworks (NYSE: DNA) to develop an affiliate diploma in biotechnology manufacturing. This system shall be housed on the Nubian Sq. Life Science Coaching Heart, a collaboration of organizations uniting to fulfill the demand for a well-trained and various life sciences workforce, with extra funding by way of a $100,000 grant from Kargman Household Basis.

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The coaching partnership between BFIT and Ginkgo Bioworks, the main horizontal platform for cell programming, will give attention to supporting the event of essential workforce expertise within the areas of biotechnology, biomanufacturing, scientific analysis and bioengineering. Program graduates shall be ready and skilled for a variety of entry- and mid-level technician positions targeted on operations and upkeep, positions which might be in excessive demand all through the life sciences subject. A 2020 report by the Massachusetts Biotechnology Schooling Basis reveals a 67% enhance in life sciences jobs in Massachusetts over the previous decade. The report additionally discovered that on the affiliate diploma and highschool graduate ranges, job demand has grown by 140%.

“Our partnership with Ginkgo Bioworks is one other instance of BFIT’s nimble strategy towards figuring out excessive demand industries that require a talented workforce and supply alternatives for sustainable profession improvement for our graduates,” stated Aisha Francis, President and CEO of BFIT. “This new affiliate’s diploma in biotechnology manufacturing positions our college students to play a essential function in supplying a various and certified workforce to fill Massachusetts’ booming life science and medical {industry}.”

“There’s a widespread false impression that solely these with superior levels are certified for jobs within the life sciences subject. It is time for that false impression to be corrected,” stated Reshma Shetty, co-founder, Chief Working Officer and President of Ginkgo Bioworks. “BFIT has robust neighborhood connections and a popularity for efficiently educating younger individuals in technical careers, and Ginkgo is dedicated to producing the following era of life sciences professionals. By way of this partnership, we hope to create long-term profession alternatives for people who could not have beforehand thought of this subject.”

The Nubian Sq. Life Science Coaching Heart is positioned in shut proximity to Madison Park Technical Vocational Excessive College, John D. O’Bryant College of Arithmetic and Science, Dearborn STEM Academy, Roxbury Neighborhood School, and different tutorial establishments with younger expertise excited to be ready for all times science careers. A key enabler of this diploma program would be the Nubian Sq. Life Science Coaching Heart, housed at Nubian Ascends within the Roxbury neighborhood alongside the proposed 68,000 square-foot, state-of-the-art BFIT campus deliberate for the nook of Harrison Ave and Eustis Avenue, remaking the panorama and including financial vitality to this traditionally and culturally wealthy space. The Coaching Heart shall be designed to incorporate lab coaching services; BFIT instructors will present instruction to the proficient college students finding out to enter these rising industries.

“We have entered into this strategic schooling partnership with company companions to make it possible for neighborhood members from areas traditionally missed have entry to new economic system jobs which might be in excessive demand and pay properly. That is what fairness in motion seems to be like and it is lengthy overdue,” stated Richard Taylor, Managing Director of the Nubian Ascends mission.

The Nubian Sq. Life Science Coaching Heart has already acquired a $100,000 grant from the Kargman Household Basis to coach and clarify Life Science profession choices to highschool college students, neighborhood school college students, and adults looking for new careers in Boston.

About Benjamin Franklin Institute of Expertise

Based in 1908 in Boston, Benjamin Franklin Institute of Expertise is an reasonably priced, city School serving the Boston area and dedicated to pupil success and profession readiness in expertise fields, 90% of that are built-in with an strategy to sustainability. With clear and inexperienced tech verticals of their high packages like HVAC&R, Wind Vitality Expertise, Automotive, and Electrical Engineering, BFIT offers customized help, hands-on studying, and industry-informed curricula to organize graduates for well-paid work, life-long studying, and civic engagement. For extra data, please go to www.bfit.edu.

About Ginkgo Bioworks

Ginkgo is constructing a platform to allow clients to program cells as simply as we are able to program computer systems. The corporate’s platform is enabling biotechnology functions throughout various markets, from meals and agriculture to industrial chemical substances to prescription drugs. Ginkgo has additionally actively supported a variety of COVID-19 response efforts, together with Ok-12 pooled testing, vaccine manufacturing optimization and therapeutics discovery. For extra data, go to www.ginkgobioworks.com.

About Nubian Ascends

Along with the Life Science Coaching Heart, the Nubian Ascends mission will supply reasonably priced artist housing, artist studio and collaboration areas, business area, a market, a 300-car parking storage, and a multi-purpose cultural corridor and theater that may help Nubian Sq.’s transformation as a brand new iconic area for the area. The proposed business area will promote job creation, which is able to deliver buying energy to help neighborhood companies and create demand for the 48,000 sf market on the bottom ground. {The marketplace} will characteristic native artisans and makers and a meals corridor that showcases cooks from an on-site culinary arts program. www.nubiansquareascends.com

Ahead-Wanting Statements of Ginkgo Bioworks
This press launch accommodates sure forward-looking statements throughout the that means of the federal securities legal guidelines, together with statements concerning the potential success of the partnership and Ginkgo’s cell programming platform. These forward-looking statements usually are recognized by the phrases “imagine,” “mission,” “potential,” “count on,” “anticipate,” “estimate,” “intend,” “technique,” “future,” “alternative,” “plan,” “could,” “ought to,” “will,” “would,” “shall be,” “will proceed,” “will doubtless consequence,” and related expressions. Ahead-looking statements are predictions, projections and different statements about future occasions which might be based mostly on present expectations and assumptions and, consequently, are topic to dangers and uncertainties. Many elements may trigger precise future occasions to vary materially from the forward-looking statements on this doc, together with however not restricted to: (i) the impact of the enterprise mixture with Hovering Eagle Acquisition Corp. (“Hovering Eagle”) on Ginkgo’s enterprise relationships, efficiency, and enterprise usually, (ii) dangers that the enterprise mixture disrupts present plans of Ginkgo and potential difficulties in Ginkgo’s worker retention, (iii) the end result of any authorized proceedings that could be instituted in opposition to Ginkgo associated to its enterprise mixture with Hovering Eagle, (iv) volatility within the value of Ginkgo’s securities now that it’s a public firm on account of quite a lot of elements, together with adjustments within the aggressive and extremely regulated industries by which Ginkgo plans to function, variations in efficiency throughout rivals, adjustments in legal guidelines and rules affecting Ginkgo’s enterprise and adjustments within the mixed capital construction, (v) the flexibility to implement enterprise plans, forecasts, and different expectations after the completion of the enterprise mixture, and determine and understand extra alternatives, and (vi) the danger of downturns in demand for merchandise utilizing artificial biology. The foregoing listing of things isn’t exhaustive. It is best to fastidiously take into account the foregoing elements and the opposite dangers and uncertainties described within the “Danger Elements” part of Ginkgo’s quarterly report on Kind 10-Q filed with the U.S. Securities and Change Fee (the “SEC”) on November 15, 2021 and different paperwork filed by Ginkgo occasionally with the SEC. These filings determine and handle different vital dangers and uncertainties that might trigger precise occasions and outcomes to vary materially from these contained within the forward-looking statements. Ahead-looking statements converse solely as of the date they’re made. Readers are cautioned to not put undue reliance on forward-looking statements, and Ginkgo assumes no obligation and doesn’t intend to replace or revise these forward-looking statements, whether or not on account of new data, future occasions, or in any other case. Ginkgo doesn’t give any assurance that it’s going to obtain its expectations.

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