Biotechnology Club
As the Biotechnology Club, we harvested the sweet sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) plant that we cultivated in May 2019 with the opening of the new academic year. Sorghum grass had reached an average length of two meters. Sorghum plant, known as the cheapest source of sugar in the world, is an energy plant suitable for fermentation with its high sugar content.
We extracted the sap by cutting the sorghum plant, which forms the first leg of our club activities. We then prepared for the second stage, which is bioethanol production. The club is preparing for the “TÜBİTAK High School Science Competitions” under the consultation of Prof. Dr. Murat Gizir, the Dean of the Faculty of Sciences at Mersin University. TAC Biotechnology Club also plans to produce a prototype vehicle with proton-exchange membrane and to build partnerships with various European countries through Erasmus+ program.