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Revision as of 03:18, 9 June 2014

Safety

 

Outreach

 

This year, the team chose to focus on three key projects:

  • - Creating a working biobrick by assembling two biobricks made by previous iGEM teams

  • - Setting up a synthetic biology laboratory

  • - Educating our community about our project and synthetic biology. The latter of which was separated into two different parts, one of them is community outreach.

Once our project goal—creating a heat-induced olfactory biosensor—was decided, several different team members discussed different ways to talk to community members and get them interested in our iGEM project and synthetic biology. In the end, we decided on pursuing three different ideas: Presenting to teachers and other students at our school, connecting with friends, family, and peers through social media, and talking about our project to the town council is the third.

Teacher and Student Presentations

Due to the team using the school’s lab, starting a discussion about synthetic biology and the heat-induced olfactory biosensor we are creating was important to team members.

 

Our Lady of the Snows (our school) is a catholic school, hosts students from kindergarten all the way to grade 12; however, the student body consists only of, approximately, 440 students. This allowed team members to visit students from grade 4 all the way through to grade 9. Depending on the audience, different concepts were focused on during the presentations. The presentations for grades 4 to 6 included information on the basic science of DNA, synthetic biology, and bacteria: with the focus being placed on the heat-induced olfactory biosensor that is being made. The content presented to grades 7 to 9 changed little from the other presentations, though more information about synthetic biology was presented. The pieces of information added were concise and informational descriptions of all the steps the team will be following to join the two biobricks together.

 

Team members also felt the need to communicate to teachers what our project entails. This was accomplished by teaching them about the impact of synthetic on the world, techniques used and the science applied when genetically engineering bacteria, and how the heat-induced olfactory biosensor would be created.

 

These presentations proved successful, since they instilled interest in iGEM in the younger students (grades 4-7) and the team received feedback from people saying that they had learnt a lot. Talking to the elementary kids about the benefits of bacteria and about the lab work the team is conducting was phenomenal since the students were very involved in the conversation and very curious. Though the junior high students weren’t as enthusiastic as the others, they were still very attentive and many expressed interest in participating in an iGEM team next year. The teachers were astonished high school students have the ability to participate in such a high level competition and were very accepting of synthetic biology.

 

Links to all different presentations can be found here:
Presentation 1 (Grades 4-6)
Presentation 2 (Grades 7-9 and teachers)
https://docs.google.com/a/isidore.redeemer.ab.ca/presentation/d/1VlMln6j9twZ-IguEo9l8Oqs-6Ba2b3TYq1za0mKAyGM/edit#slide=id.p73

Social Networking
As a small project, team members created both Twitter and Facebook accounts to share updates on the project. Many peers and friends followed these accounts allowing for team members to keep students and community members updated on our project. Here is a link to our Twitter page: https://twitter.com/OLeSsence_iGEM and here is a link to our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OLeSsence.

Newspaper Article

We have also been featured in our town newspaper, the Crag and Canyon, in an article about our team, project, and synthetic biology. This has helped educate our larger community about iGEM, and our project goals. Here is the link to the article: http://www.thecragandcanyon.ca/2014/05/22/students-take-part-in-igem-competition

 

Town Council

Information to be compiled after the presentation.

2014 Our Lady of the Snows iGEM