Team:KU Leuven/Notebook/Achievements
Achievements
Bronze
★Register the team, have a great summer, and plan to have fun at the Giant Jamboree.
★Successfully complete and submit this iGEM 2015 Judging form.
★Create and share a Description of the team's project using the iGEM wiki, and document the team's parts using the Registry of Standard Biological Parts.
★Plan to present a Poster and Talk at the iGEM Jamboree.
★Create a page on your team wiki with clear attribution of each aspect of your project. This page must clearly attribute work done by the students and distinguish it from work done by others, including host labs, advisors, instructors, sponsors, professional website designers, artists, and commercial services. You can find our Attributions page here.
★Document at least one new standard BioBrick Part or Device central to your project and submit this part to the iGEM Registry. We submitted BioBrick BBa_K1709001, you can find more information about this BioBrick on the Basic Parts page.
Silver
★Experimentally validate that at least one new BioBrick Part or Device of your own design and construction works as expected. We submitted BioBrick BBa_K1709002, you can find more information about this BioBrick on the Basic Parts page.
★Document the characterization of this part in the Main Page section of the Registry entry for that Part/Device. Submit this new part to the iGEM Parts Registry. We submitted BioBricks BBa_K1709002 and BBa_K1709003, you can find more information about this BioBrick on the Composite Parts page.
★iGEM projects involve important questions beyond the bench, for example relating to (but not limited to) ethics, sustainability, social justice, safety, security, and intellectual property rights. We refer to these activities as Human Practices in iGEM. We have described our human practices in the Outreach page.
Gold
★Help any registered iGEM team from another school or institution by, for example, characterizing a part, debugging a construct, or modeling or simulating their system. See our Collaborations page for details on our collaboration.
★Demonstrate an innovative Human Practices activity that relates to your project. This typically involves educational, public engagement, and/or public perception activities. For our expanded human practices, please visit our Outreach page.
Prizes
The iGEM 2015 judging committee awards Track Awards to the best teams in every track. Special prizes are also awarded to honor specific innovative and unique contributions to iGEM. These contributions include, amongst others, modeling, education and design. These prizes are awarded by the judges based on how impressed they are with the level of excellence demonstrated by the teams.
We were nominated for 4 awards:
★ Best Poster
★ Best Education and Public Engagement
★ Best Model
★ Best New Application Project (Track Award), for which we were the runner-up!
★ For the participation in the joint study: Interlab Study Award
More information about the rewards can be found on the Results page.
Contact
Address: Celestijnenlaan 200G room 00.08 - 3001 Heverlee
Telephone: +32(0)16 32 73 19
Email: igem@chem.kuleuven.be
