Number of Classes
4 weekly sessions
Session Duration
45 minutes
Course Description
Step into the virtual lab and into your future! BioTech Forward gives aspiring scientists hands-on experience with real-world projects that make a difference. Learn essential lab techniques, explore genetics, bioengineering, and pharmaceuticals, just like the pros. Through partnerships with local biotech companies and universities, you’ll build a digital portfolio to showcase your skills for college and career success.
Mass State Standards
- HS-LS1 From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes
- HS-LS2 Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics
- STE (Science & Technology/Engineering) Framework — Biology (Life Sciences)
- LS3 Heredity: Inheritance and Variation of Traits
Skills Learned
- Scientific & Technical Skills
- Critical Thinking & Problem-Solving
- Digital & Professional Skills
About Digital Ready
Digital Ready is a nonprofit based in Boston that empowers high school students — especially Black and Latinx youth — to build concrete pathways into careers in STEM and Boston’s innovation economy. Through a mix of hands-on studios, early-college credits, work-based learning, and mentorship, Digital Ready helps students translate their interests and creativity into skills and opportunities in fields like design, engineering, technology, and biotech. The organization is committed to social justice and equity: it intentionally supports underrepresented communities, challenges structural barriers, and aims to make Boston’s innovation economy more inclusive and accessible to young people of color.