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<p>A big part of our public engagement efforts is education. This is only the second year that the University of Oslo has participated in the iGEM competition since it’s inception with the
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We therefore want to raise the profile of our University’s iGEM course so that practically every student knows or has heard about it. Central to this approach is having open lecures for first year university students to inform them about iGEM and our iGEM-project. Discussing our project is easy since we are all very excited about our project, but it also gives a very illustrative example of what the iGEM competition can be to curious students. We held <b>6 lectures</b> for new students at the Biosciences Department, and held <b>another lecture</b> at a conference for new students at Sundvolden Hotel, and <b>a lecture</b> for first years master students. We’re planning to hold more lectures for different students and make posters for departments that haven’t been actively courted yet.</p>
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<p>We also wanted to reach out to high schools in Oslo, in order to give high-school students an impression and increased awareness of the possibilities that are afforded them when studying sciences or biosciences at the University. iGEM is a neat example of how they can applying their knowledge to real issues once they are in higher education.</p>
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<p>As part of a general effort to inform the public about our work and build interest for UiOslo iGEM’s projects, we’ve been actively engaged in (media) outreach. We have devided our activities under the categories education, television, radio and paper media. Click on the different categories within the picture to read about our broad spectrum of human outreach!</p>
 
  
 
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Revision as of 20:07, 15 September 2015

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Education

A big part of our public engagement efforts is education. This is only the second year that the University of Oslo has participated in the iGEM competition since it’s inception with the MicroOrganiser team in 2014. We therefore want to raise the profile of our University’s iGEM course so that practically every student knows or has heard about it. Central to this approach is having open lecures for first year university students to inform them about iGEM and our iGEM-project. Discussing our project is easy since we are all very excited about our project, but it also gives a very illustrative example of what the iGEM competition can be to curious students. We held 6 lectures for new students at the Biosciences Department, and held another lecture at a conference for new students at Sundvolden Hotel, and a lecture for first years master students. We’re planning to hold more lectures for different students and make posters for departments that haven’t been actively courted yet.

We also wanted to reach out to high schools in Oslo, in order to give high-school students an impression and increased awareness of the possibilities that are afforded them when studying sciences or biosciences at the University. iGEM is a neat example of how they can applying their knowledge to real issues once they are in higher education.

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