Costs Breakdown

* The money is needed for: 1) Current operating cost (paying technician staff, facility rent and utilities, food for invertebrates including plants, care for special insect food plants, some research tools and supplies, invertebrate cages, some low cost basic lab equipment such as freezers, heaters, grow tents and humidifiers and temp/humidity monitors), 2) Marketing and fundraising campaigns, 3) Building or remodeling larger public space for proof of concept prototype insect zoo and research facility open to the public, 4) educational programs and development of content, 5) Building a business plan for the ISI Biodome, 6) Recruitment of volunteers (advertising, PR, etc.), 7) Building, equipping and staffing the ultimate world’s largest biodome and biotech facility (biodome, plants, cages, walk-in environmental chambers for growing invertebrates, a private green house for special plants, chemistry core facility, state of the art genome sequencing core facility).