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Human practice

To implement the core value of iGEM and spread a brief recognition of synthetic biology among general students, we conducted our human practice mission with pleasure. The public we targeted to were mainly consisted of three groups listed below: students from other iGEM teams, freshmen from the School of Life Science in Tsinghua this year and some high school students who showed great interest in our project and daily experiment.

iGEM Mini-Jamboree (Public Engagement)

Freshmen major in Biology always look forward to their research life in the future with enormous passion every year. In the light of this statement, we held an iGEM Mini-Jamboree on September 13th, 2015.     

In addition to our telling the story of iGEM and some previous interesting projects, we encouraged them to form several temporary teams, which enabled them to exchange their preliminary ideas relevant to feasible iGEM projects.

The most impressive part came when the representative of every group shared the amazing thoughts of their discussion, and those brave students were awarded with small souvenirs. 

 

At last, we received many reflections and encouragements written on the leaflet from them, which made us feel even more hopeful when thinking about future iGEM teams representing the School of Life Science in Tsinghua. 

Lab Visiting & Experiment Guidance (Education)

We decided to create a chance for high school students to experience experiments in the lab after we got to know their desire for practical attempt based on theoretical knowledge learned in class. Contacted successfully on May 18th, these senior three students from RDFZ visited the lab on May 24th for the first time.

Several days in May and June spent in the lab with them, we introduced significant lab safety rules and basic molecular experiments. By the time we ended this activity, they were capable of getting positive results from a small round of experiment we designed for them. 

Attending Conferences (Communication)

The 3rd iGEM conference in Taiwan:
Xiao Yangbo and Zhao Yiqing, two of our team members, attended the 2015 iGEM conference held by NCTU in Taiwan from July 19th to 24th. Serving as a “small jamboree” facing to teams in Asia, presentations and poster introductions were given according to different project designs as well as experiment progress. In this way, efficient and harmonious communication between teams was realized while we got helpful advice at the same time.     

CCIC(China Community of iGEM Competition summit):

Five members of us also attended CCIC held in Peking University on August 8th. We found that there were teams working on systems similar to ours. Although we did not give a presentation at the conference, listening to those correlated projects indeed shed light on our work, therefore worth the participation. 

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