MassBioEd's 2020 Comedy Classic
September 17, 2020 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
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Our annual Golf Classic is our signature fundraiser that brings together industry professionals to enjoy a day of golf and support biotech education and workforce development. This year, our event will look different but will still provide an opportunity to give back to the community. MassBioEd's 2020 Comedy Classic features renowned comedian Jimmy Tingle, and rising star, Corey Rodrigues, offering a great way to kick back, relax, and enjoy an afternoon virtual show of entertaining comedy from local talents. Invite your friends! Share the Comedy Classic Invite.
View the 2020 Comedy Classic Playbill
Thank you to our Premier Sponsors, Alexandria Real Estate and Janitronics!
Thank you to our Entertainment Sponsor, Fisher Scientific!
Because this is a FREE event, we invite you to make a donation to support our work with teachers in high-need school districts to prepare for the 2020-2021 academic year during the pandemic. Our Aligned Curricular and Career Experiences for Secondary Science (ACCESS) Program supports teachers as they integrate vertically aligned, hands-on life science lessons and college and career experiences across grades 6-12. ACCESS ensures that, over the course of 4-5 years, students will have multiple meaningful, life sciences experiences that build upon past lessons. Help us impact 15,000 students during the 2020-2021 academic school year through inquiry-based lab activities and career exploration programs.
How to contribute:
1. Make a donation online.
2. Text the word "massbioed" to the number 243725.
Your donation will make the following possible within our ACCESS program:
• $1,000 - Student Set of Biotech Equipment (Gel Electrophoresis)
• $500 - College & Career Exploration Event for 50 Students
• $250 - Lab Kit for a Class of 24 Students
• $100 - Individual Set of Student Micropipettes
• $50 - Stipend for Teacher to Attend Professional Development Training
Donations of $100 or more will receive a thank you package that includes a designed mask, test tube mints, and a water bottle.
Donations of $500 or more will receive a donation package that includes designed masks, test tube mints, a water bottle, and a UV phone sanitizer with a wireless charging pad.
If your company wishes to match your donation, they may do so by contacting communications@massbioed.org or making the donation online. For gifts over $2,500, we encourage mailing a check. See details to mail a check here.
All proceeds from this virtual event benefit the MassBioEd's mission to build and sustain a strong, diverse workforce in the life sciences. The pandemic has highlighted the critical importance of the life sciences. As we continue to develop and integrate on-line programs for teachers, students and schools, the need to educate the next generation of scientists, promote career opportunities within the industry to under-served communities, and bring in new skilled workers is more important than ever. To learn more, visit MassBioEd.org.
We are committed to meeting this challenge and hope you will join us.
Details to join will be provided in advance of the event. For any questions, please contact communications@massbioed.org.
Interested in sponsoring? View our 2020 Sponsorship opportunities.
- Corey Rodrigues
- Actor and Comedian
- Corey Rodrigues has consistently been touted as one of the most well-rounded stand-ups to come out of the Boston scene. He was the winner of The Catch a New Rising Star, The Funniest Comic in New England and the 2017 Big Sky Comedy Festivals. Rodrigues has been featured on the hilarious Gotham Live, Laughs on Fox and True Tv's Laff Mobbs Laff Tracks. In 2018 he released his Dry Bar comedy special, was voted "best of the fest" at the Big Pine Comedy Festival and was picked as one of TBS's Comics to Watch at the New York Comedy Fest. In 2019 Rodrigues made his late-night TV debut on the Conan O'Brien show. He currently can be heard daily on Sirius XM. "His comedy is honest and fun", constantly peppering in stories from his life and the lives of those around him. Mix that with a hilarious point of view and he's able to talk about just about anything. Corey has been able to use his comedic gift to impact the community by raising money for Dana Farber, The Pan Mass Challenge, The American Cancer Society, Rebuilding Boston Together, The Jimmy Fund, The Blue Angels of Manchester, CT and countless other charities.
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- Jimmy Tingle
- Comedian, Producer, and Commentator
- Jimmy Tingle has the rare distinction of winning Boston Magazine’s “Best of Boston” in the “stand-up comedy” category and for “best alternative theater” as the producer and artistic director of Jimmy Tingle’s Off-Broadway Theater in Somerville. He is the founder of Humor for Humanity, which aspires to raise spirits, funds and awareness for nonprofits, charities and social causes through his work as a comedian, emcee and auctioneer. He has worked as a humorist and commentator for 60 Minutes II and MSNBC and has appeared on The Tonight Show, CNN, Conan O’Brien, Fresh Air with Terry Gross and in his own HBO half-hour comedy special. He recently had a cameo appearance with Julia Loise-Dreyfus in Veep on HBO. His latest one-man-show “Jimmy Tingle’s 20/20 Vision” is a funny, thought provoking and hopeful look at contemporary life and politics through the experience of comedian, commentator and 2018 candidate for LT Governor of Massachusetts, Jimmy Tingle. As the nation looks ahead to the upcoming presidential campaign of 2020, Jimmy Tingle’s 20/20 Vision will entertain, enlighten and challenge the audience to move beyond the current politics of presidential tweets, sound bites and the nightly news cycle and into the realm of long-term thinking and life affirming possibility.
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