Team:CIDEB-UANL Mexico/safety posters

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CINVESTAV DNA Week Explosion Collaborations Race for Science "Enlace Cientifico" Videogame

iGEM CIDEB 2014 - Project

DNA Week

Objective: To increase student’s curiosity and knowledge about the microscopic world, as well as the transmission and risks that could happen if contagion with different bacteria or viruses occur according to the risk group they belong.

Description: We consider visual knowledge as one of the most important ways for people to get interested and learn about something. Safety from iGEM CIDEB 2014 decided to design and print 10 different posters measuring 11 inches of length and 17 inches of height with information including risk group, type, medical symptoms if infection occurred, affected organs and transmission of 10 different interesting bacteria or viruses

THE PRESENTATION CONSISTED ON:
What is IGEM?	Explains that IGEM is an international competition of synthetic biology, in which about 215 teams around the world participate.
What is synthetic biology?	The creation of biological systems, to give nature a new purpose different from the original.
Talking about DNA	DNA is what encodes the genetic instructions used in the development and functioning of all known living organisms.
GAME TIME
IGEM in our high school	CIDEB_UANL had been participating in IGEM the last 2 years, obtaining the 3^rd place in both.
CIDEB 2014 project	E.CARU consists in 4 modules of Capture of Na⁺, Aroma of Wintergreen, Resistance to different environments and Union to silica pearls.
LET’S PLAY

Results:

We reached our objective. During the explanation, the students seemed surprised about the iGEM competition and the importance of our project. While listening to us and performing the games, the students have become closer to the team members asking more about how are we doing our project, what should they do if they want to participate, what do we do in each one of our teams (math, human practices, safety, etc.), they were even asking us about the posters that were pasted around the high school. They have shown a lot of interest. Even teachers who looked at us came closer to know about whom we were and how do we work.

The response given by the students of curiosity participation and interest is very important to us, because it makes us know we did reached our objective by encouraging and diffusing science. Because we are awaking their scientific interest and their enthusiasm to do something related to it. What the last year was a project known by only few students, today is an expectation for the next semester. And it is even better because some of them are the new iGEM CIDEB generation; the possibilities of gaining people who deserve to be part of the team have increased, because they are informed, they like it, and since now, they expect to approach it.