Esteban Cervantes
Nogales, Arizona
This Lil Lab is part of a community garden in Nogales (AZ). Inside the Lil Lab, there are small books with gardening tips from local community members (in Spanish), seeds, and plant clippings. Attached to the Lil Lab are tools such as trowels and a watering can.
Corinne Takara
Honolulu, Hawai'i
The Mānoa Valley LilLab is a mini free-sharing lab connected to the Nest Makerspace in Honolulu, Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi. This LilLab, located on a well-traveled path near Manoa’s University of Hawai’i, provides free access to Pono STEAM kits, kokedama moss balls, mini woven lauhala cubes and weaving kits, foldscopes, place-based dyes, and windfall airplants gathered from upper Mānoa Valley to create a shared space to encourage collaboration and mālama (care) for the environment, as well as community workshops to drive innovation specific to Hawai’i.
Jan Mun, Ellen Jorgensen
Queens, New York
The Biotech Without Borders Lil Lab serves as a open-space at the Greenpoint Public Library for hands-on learning through DNA extractions, bioglass/resin, and slime molds kits so that students of all ages can engage with scientific concepts in an interactive, engaging, and easily approachable way.
Suzana Matos, IFFar-SAn & Rede Kunhã Asé
Santo Ângelo, Brazil
Brazil is the seventh-nearest country to Antarctica and Rio Grande do Sul is the southernmost Brazilian state. As a result, it is the one that most suffers the influence of the Antarctic ice melting and its consequences. People don’t even know about Antarctica's location and its influence in the South American climate dynamics. The Lil Lab Antártico will offer information, activities and experiences with the aim to raise awareness about the cold continent.
Roudlotul Jannah
Malang, East Java, Indonesia
My Lil Lab activities are designed around my community’s values of faith, togetherness, and curiosity, with an emphasis on respect for nature, linking spiritual values with scientific exploration.
Sebunya Emmanuel Kato
Synbio4ALL Africa, Kampala, Uganda
The Synbio4ALL Africa Lil Lab offers practical trainings in basic science such as nucleic acid and protein extraction, PCR, sequencing and other basic molecular biology techniques for the start with a broader vision of starting up an institution to offer theoretical and practical training to Africans in synthetic biology and other emerging technologies.
Srikari Tanikella
San Jose, California, USA
This Lil Lab is focused on melanoma, and involves creating cells from construction paper to interpret how melanoma malignant cells need to be preprocessed with a variety of cells, as well as index card sun protection to avoid developing cancer. In addition, the Lil Healthier Lab determine the timing of targeted therapies such as BRAF inhibitors and how a patient becomes "drug resistant"!
Erica Monteiro, Bruno Francesco Rodrigues de Oliveira
Niterói, RJ, Brazil
The GiB²C Lil Lab provides community with access to bioinformatics and computational biology practices and content in an accessible manner, bringing young people closer to emerging areas of science and stimulating interest in scientific and technological careers.
GiB²C offers a unique opportunity for the local community to experience cutting-edge science in bioinformatics, a field that is still little explored in schools, through workshops, games, lectures, and collaborative projects.
Kajelcha Fikadu
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
The Local Biotechnology Lab is a Mobile Community Biotech Hub based in Addis Ababa city that actively travels to underserved neighborhoods and schools. Its contents reflect community-specific needs, including through frugal science tools, water testing kits addressing local AMR concerns, resources linking traditional fermentation to biotechnology, and Amharic-language guides for hands-on experiments like DNA extraction.
Julia Alejandra Perez Santisteban, Cameron Goodman, Dallys Hernandez, Yohana Calel
Guatemala
The Wonon Project Lil Labs serve as small community labs to empower indigenous communities through science and technology, where both knowledge and resources are openly distributed in the cultural heritage of the Maya K’iche’ and Mam people. The labs are equipped with supplies for menstrual health and personal hygiene, books, and manuals promoting sustainable agriculture and using medicinal plants based on ancestral practices, in addition to microscopes and modern scientific tools to create a hands-on environment that inspires culturally-driven curiosity.
Elliot Roth, Morgan Hough, Ryan Berg, Kelsey Pool
San Francisco, California
The Cellsius Lil Lab seeks to provide open access to tools, mentorship, and community lab space in San Francisco, CA. To increase the number of opportunities for people to enter the bioeconomy, this Lil Lab offers educational skill-development workshops, low-cost shared benchtops, access to shared equipment, and the place for early stage biotech projects to incubate.
Brendan O'Connor
Othello, Seattle, Washington
The Little Free Failure of Capitalism (LFFC) serves as a distribution point for necessities for the unhoused, impoverished, and those suffering from opioid addition. LFFC provides soap, socks, wound care materials, naloxone (Narcan), zines, arts, native and food plant seeds, a free public telephone, and on-demand stories.
David Castillo, Adrian Filips, Whalehaa Gudino
The Glyxon Biolabs Lil Lab provides an open network of communication in a Java cross platform system that can be incorporated in any operating system. Organizations working on forest management can measure CO2 and soil respiration remotely using open source mobile and portable devices, serving as a way for them to gain familiarity and mentorship with this technology.
Jessica McGrath
Cabbagetown, Atlanta, Georgia
The Cabbagetown Lil Lab seeks to provide bioart supplies and soil and water quality testing kits in the Cabbagetown community of Atlanta, Georgia. With a vibrant community of artists and musicians in Cabbagetown, this Lil Lab has quickly garnered the interest of locals to achieve its mission of inspiring community-driven science.
Chiara Klein
North Carolina
The Waccamaw Siouan STEM Studio Water Testing Lil Lab seeks to provide PFAS water testing kits to members of the Waccamaw Siouan tribal community in North Carolina. In light of the harmful effects of PFAS contamination, this Lil Lab allows for at-home well water testing and a broader discussion on action plans given the community results.
Jirapat Thaweechuen, Wave Pongruengkiat, Bora Hong
Chiang Mai, Thailand
tomorrow.Lab is a futuristic lab focused on biohacking and the human connection to other species through engineering biological systems beyond natural limitations. tomorrow.Lab seeks to provide biohacking educational programming through Zines and form a biology-driven community of people from different backgrounds that can inspire new, creative ideas.
Lila Levinson
Ballard, Seattle, Washington
The Lil Hill Lab is a library for plant clipping sharing located in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle, near the top of a long, steep hill. The plant library gives community members a low-cost way to bring greenery into their homes and share their planting successes with neighbors. This Lil Lab also provides an engaging hill-themed optical illusion, hill-loving native plants on its roof, and a breathing place for folks as they reach the end of the long hill.
Sana Jalili
Mumbai, India
My Lil Lab is located in Mumbai, India. It is a condensed homemade view of frugal biology experiments.