A Club

To attract more attention on the competition and our project about the CRISPR-Cas system, we ran a club named iGEMER at NFLS(Nanjing Foreign Languages School) and held educational and elementary activities on the days of Nanjing Club Summit and NFLS Club Salon, the most ceremonious club celebrations in Nanjing and in NFLS. Once or twice a week hundreds of students took part in the club activities including the study group about synthetic biology in which they shared the latest findings and breakthroughs in biological field, the lectures given by the well-known professors from China Pharmaceutical University about the development of the modern biological technologies, transformation from the simple-helix structure of RNA to the double-helix structure of DNA, construction and application of Biobricks, some hands-on experiments such as the DNA extraction finished by the students from different grades, and trips and studies in the labs in universities and companies. We set up a platform for every high school students interested in biology to share their novel ideas. During the practice, we prepared presentations about the topic we were going to talk about before the seminar started and in that case the different levels of students’ previous knowledge would not cause any frictions. After the seminar, we got a large amount of positive feedbacks from the club members and successfully aroused the sparks and potential interest around us.

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From 2014hs.igem.org