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Located in the Bay Area, Summit Shasta is a revolutionary school that prefers to encourage students to grow from their mistakes, rather than have students memorize meaningless facts. They push their students to seek out challenges and overcome them, thus the iGem team was born, with help they hope to achieve success in bringing their ideas to life. The team is part of Summit Shasta's first year being around, comprised entirely of eager freshman. Perhaps one day they will revolutionize the world. [http://aslanbnguyen.wix.com/igem Click here for more!]
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Latest revision as of 19:07, 17 June 2014

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Introduction

Located in the Bay Area, Summit Shasta is a revolutionary school that prefers to encourage students to grow from their mistakes, rather than have students memorize meaningless facts. They push their students to seek out challenges and overcome them, thus the iGem team was born, with help they hope to achieve success in bringing their ideas to life. The team is part of Summit Shasta's first year being around, comprised entirely of eager freshman. Perhaps one day they will revolutionize the world.

Contact: shastahsigem@gmail.com

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