Team:CIDEB-UANL Mexico/hp explosion

With the purpose of obtaining information of how our high school and the public in general sees iGEM and our iGEM CIDEB project we created our own iGEM mascot. According to the divulgation objective, the group has developed activities with the goal of showing an overview of synthetic biology, as an initiative and entertaining visual recognition, a mascot was elaborated. The importance and objective of the mascot is to generate interest among people, causing them to come and see paraphernalia explaining our project (posters, bracelets bearing an explanation of our project, etc.) There are two main activities where the motley was used; the first one is called DNA Week – it took place inside a high school, and consisted of several activities that promoted synthetic biology. The second activity was called Race 4 Science, and consisted in a series of modules concerning synthetic biology and its different areas.