Charlotte Mulvihill, the director of the OKCCC biotechnology program, says that, with 10 hours a week spent in the laboratory and only one hour a week spent in lecture, "We have turned the college model on its head."
The OKCCC program has received two grants--one from the National Institutes of Health and one from the National Science Foundation which has enabled the program to have an organized and sustained biotechnology outreach.
One of the high schools that has benefited from OKCCC's entry into biotechnology education is the Tulsa School for Science and Technology (TSST), where an agriculture education class is introducing students to career opportunities in the biotechnology field.