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OUTREACH
A young laboratory visitor views stem cells through the microscope.
The 2015 year was an extraordinary one in the life of the Gates Center and its ability to reach out to the community, schools,andelectedofficials,aswellastopatientsandtheir families.
Celebrating the grand opening of the Gates Biomanufacturing Facility on April 6, 2015, (see Gates Biomanufacturing Facility on page 28) provided the Gates Center a unique opportunity to showcase the center and the new facility to guests and elected officials and to thank our partners who helped make this critical addition to the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus possible: Children’s Hospital Colorado, UCHealth, the University of Colorado School of Medicine and the Gates Frontiers Fund. A month later, thanks to the encouragement of Gates Advisory Board member Janelle
Blessing, the Gates Center was able to host a similar evening on campus for the Colorado chapter of the Young Presidents’ Organization and World Presidents’ Organization (YPO/ WPO). Groups of YPO/WPO members and their friends then came out to campus to visit the new facility at various times throughout the remainder of the year, as did other interested individuals and groups, such as the Colorado chapter of Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Foundation, Inc.
Whether on or off campus, the year also enabled the center to share its mission and work with a variety of individuals and groups. Students and teachers came to the center for presentations and tours from Mackintosh Academy, Vail Mountain School, Aurora Public Schools, CU Science Discovery, Stanley British Primary and Arapahoe High School.
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