The St. Mark’s iGEM Team is committed to serving the community through innovative research and engaging outreach. Our mission is in line with that of iGEM’s by promoting and fostering scientific research in our school and beyond. We strive to engage with social, cultural, ethical, philosophical, environmental, political, legal, and economic dimensions of synthetic biology. In our first year, we developed comics that would integrate synthetic biology concepts into the plot and artwork to bring youth awareness to our Biotechnology Initiative, created engaging YouTube biotechnology tutorial videos as we strove to give a global online audience access to quality instructional resources in synthetic biology, launched our school’s greatest social media campaign through Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube, and created a professional film to showcase our Biotechnology Initiative.