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As we can see from the graph, even if we consider these group of people as rational and well-educated on biology, there are still half of the people who whether holds discriminations upon this subject or being simply ignorant for biology engineering.

Here are some of the cross checks we have done for questions:

As we can see from the graph, current students seem to be more tolerant on Bioengineering since they are more likely to receive the latest information on this subject. However, people at work, especially some parents born before 1970s and in China, tend to be more conservative. This is probably because what they experienced may lead to a belief in rumors on Bioengineering that thinks it only creates unnatural creature that harms the whole environment. While most people desire for a genetic therapy for cancer, many are simultaneously resisting microbiology that actually contributes to the therapy. It is easy to get that there must be a stereotype planted in people’s mind that needs we iGEMers to remove it.

Therefore, in both the questionnaire and our publicity, we announced that we will relate their childhood memories to iGEM, believing that recalling people of their favorite fairy tales, fables and legends when they are young may make people feel that biology can be so engaging. Moreover, by performing Chinese traditional legends to iGEMers around the world, we become able to advertise the beauties of our culture to the world.

One more thing, the initial purpose of relating stories was not to educate kids, but was to retell stories, to remind adults about their good times when they were young, gathering around their grandparents for fantastic stories. Awkward our logic in the parts might seem, once they learned our attempts, a smile on their face would be our great gratification.

SZMS has been participating in iGEM for two years and our team gained attention from students and caring parents. In order to ask for support from the school for this year’s team, we asked for help from the school board. However, not only our school principle came to visit us in the lab, but also the mayor and teachers from city education committee. After introducing our project, we got financial supports from our school.

Considering we are from China, we added this traditional chinese heroic epic into our project. We hope that through our project and introducing both iGEM and our project, people all over the world, more or less, can appreciate chinese culture.