Team:SKLBC-China/Team
WE ARE A TEAM
Our group is consisted of 11 students from top high schools and middle schools. We were instructed by several PhDs of various fields from Sun Yat-sen University, which is a top 10 university in China, taking interdisciplinary courses such as programming, graphic design, and speech skills. Admittedly, given our academic backgrounds as high school students, it was financially and academically difficult for us to carry out an excellent experimental project as collegiate wet teams did. Therefore, we chose software track in iGEM this year and put our emphasis on human practice and educational outreaching to help improve iGEM wet teams’ working efficiency as well as extend the social influence of synthetic biology. At our first acquaintance, all we knew about each other was that we shared the same curiosity on biology and pursued for the same goal. Motivated by the same ambition, we worked together and gradually grew into a powerful and unbreakable team. This summer is the harvest season for us all. Not only did we complete a project that seemed extremely tough for us at the beginning, but we acquired knowledge that we may have never dabbled in before. Most unforgettably, we have been through the most brilliant summer in our lives with the precious and ever-lasting friendship among our team members and our mentors. Starting from scratch, we were on the way. The initial experience was delicate yet amazing. Strangers sat in a small room, saying hello to others with bit of timidity, pretending to focus on other stuffs, but couldn’t help chit-chatting with the person sitting nearby when typing on the laptops. Step by step, we gained knowledge, developed skills, and finally got to understand each other from the deep of our hearts. Together, we shared happiness and sorrow, gave our hands to one another when needed, and surmounted all the barriers, including stress that seemingly impossible for us to confront with such courage, on our way. Eventually, we became an inseparable team. It’s wonderful and ineffable to stand at this point and retrospect the days we had struggled yet stuck tightly together. Still on the way, we struggled for an unpredictable future, an alluring dream. During the incipient months, we merely had a vague picture of our project and limited communication with each other. In turn, our project was proceeded really slowly back then. In the summer vacation, we lived together for ten days, with an immature project at the very beginning. But nothing could prevent us from achieving our dream. We searched for courses and tried frequently to get better visual effects of graphic designs because we were not adepts at it initially. None of us are native English speakers, so we had to practice for the presentations repeatedly while constantly modify the prototype of our project. We are a team. There were also moments when we argued because of divergences; there were moments when we jumped into the swimming pool together and enjoyed the relaxing atmosphere after a whole day’s exhausting but joyful work; there were also moments when some of us could not bear the pressure and cried secretly, but fortunately, received the comfort and encouragement from the rest of the team. No matter what we have encountered, joy or sorrow, victory or defeat, we always took it as a possibility to share our views and consummate our project. We are a team. It’s hard ever to imagine the long struggling way without any single person in this team. We are a team. It will never be a whole if anyone is absent. We are a Team. Thanks to everyone’s effort and contribution.
SKLBC_CHINA’s chronology
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MARCH
2015
SKLBC_CHINA WAS RECRUITING TEAM MEMBERS!
APRIL
2015
FIRST TRAININING COURSE OF SKLBC_CHINA!
JUNE
2015
THE IDEA OF WEIGEM2.0 WAS BORN!
JULY
2015
SUMMER CAMP!
SEPTEMBER
2015
IGEM JAMBOREE!
sklbc_china dream team
Hongjun Lin
Video Producer
Hongjun is in charge of the producing of promoting video of WEiGEM2.0, from shooting to editing. As a junior student in Guangzhou No.6 High School, he master various skills including video editing, penbeat. He is a professional swimming athlete as well.
Junyu Liang
Graphic Designer
Box Designer
Junyun contributes a lot to our teams' graphic design and always provides creative ideas to us. She is an outgoing and lovely girl who can speak excellent English and loves RunningMan. Now she is a junior student in Guangdong Experimental High School.
Yizhen Yang
Graphic Designer
Though looking calm and introverted, Yizhen, who is now a junior student in Guangzhou Zhixin High School, is actually a girl with great kindness and passion. From video production to graphic design, she is versatile and at the mean time, knowledgable in Biology.
Mingjun Deng
Graphic Designer
Graphic Designer
Although Mingjun is the youngest member in our team, a junior student in Guangzhou Guangya Baiyun Experimental School, he demonstrates excellent learning ability and intelligence during our project. He not only has an acute intuition towards graphic design, but is also capable of editing websites as well.
Yang Xu
Graphic Designer
Wiki Writer
Yang has abundant knowledge in the field of Biology and great interest in exploring the beauty of Biology. As an outstanding student in Guangzhou Zhixin High School, he takes part in experimental projects cooperating with Sun Yat-sen University.
Shushen Chen
Graphic Designer
Wiki Writer
Shushen is a rather reticent boy who is talented in design and writing. Facing the stress from schoolworks as a senior student, he is still determined to join us and devote himself in iGEM, motivated by his love for life science and technology.
Hannan Liu
Graphic Designer
Box Designer
Life science lover. Hannan is knowledgable in Biology and curious in all the aspects of Biology. To pursue his dream of being a biologist, he participated in many programs and competitions related to biology and had numerous accomplishments.
Kaibin Gao
Web Developer
Box Designer
As a senior student in Guangdong Guangya High School, Kaibin is planning to continue her college study in the US. Recognizing her advantage in writing and web developing, she takes up the assigenment of box design and web development along with other teammates.
Zhiyuan Dai
Web Developer
With inherent interest in learning new things and exploring Chemistry, Zhiyuan never gets tired in raising new questions that bother him. He is a diligent junior student in the honor class of Guangdong Guangya High School.
Haojun Chen
Platform
Administrator
Working as a general manager of the article sifting and pushing on the platform of WEiGEM2.0, Haojun is a person with great sense of responsibility and deep understanding of the essence in teamwork. He also acts as information collector in our team.
Zhiquan Zhu
General Coordinator
Zhiquan, a junior student in Guangzhou Xiangxian High School, plays an important role-coordinator, in our team, due to his amiability towards everyone in this team. He helps maintain high working efficiency during the execution of WEiGEM2.0 and has good relationship with the whole team.
