Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology was the first post-secondary school to adopt JoVE.
“We’re just not your typical high school,” explains Dr. Andrea Cobb, lab director at Jefferson. She teaches biotechnology and microbiology, and requested the subscription as a means to help her students learn to use the school's advanced science gear.
Cobb said: “We have a DNA sequencer, mammalian cell culture facilities, we just got environmental growth culture facilities. We have a lot of toys. Stuff I didn’t even have when I was in grad school.”
She also said: “This way they can see a procedure and practice it over and over again. A picture is worth a thousand words and a video is worth a thousand teachers.”