Team:UCL Academy/Notebook/Week 2

From 2014hs.igem.org

WEEK 2

Monday 26th May, 2014.

Surveyed students and teachers on their views on synthetic biology to evaluate the ethical problems and benefits of our research (and genetic engineering as a whole)

A question box was set up in ucla and the (researched) answers were answered in an assembly to aware and educate people more about genetic engineering and the field of synthetic biology/genetics.

Tuesday 27th May, 2014.

Conducted a lesson on synthetic biology to year 7 and 8 pupils that were interested in science or were inquisitive on the subject (also giving advice and our own opinions on this field of study)

Wednesday 28th May, 2014.

Skype with CIDEB-UANL_Mexico to set up collaboration idea.

Thursday 29th May, 2014.

Collected water from Hampstead Heath pond for testing and tested it in the classroom.

Edited our short film
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