An important part of IGEM UNAH´s project was the support we had from the media. One of the group´s objectives was to spread knowledge to people about Synthetic Biology and to let them know that Biology students care about solving big scale problems that are affecting society, through science. The media was an important part for this activity to take place and the team is very grateful.
Our first interactions with the public were consequence of the search for funding for the project. In order to get this funds the team decided to participate in the international contest “Global Innovation through Science and Technology” (GIST) because in case of winning, the team would have had training and funding for our project to take place. An important part of this contest was to obtain the largest amount of votes possible, so the team started spreading our participation throughout mass media. The previously mentioned activity made us reach to different media in the country and many of them had the will to collaborate with us.
The impulse obtained from our participation in the contest was harnessed to keep spreading our project throughout mass media, but with the intention of disseminate information and knowledge about Synthetic Biology and the way our project was developing. Many media collaborated with our team, some of them are well recognized nationally, and by this we can say that our objective of disseminating was accomplished.
Coverage
from UTV, UNAH´s official TV channel
An article on “Presencia Universitaria”, official media of UNAH.
Next some
of the interviews and coverage in which the IGEM UNAH team participated:
