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<p> On a nice Saturday morning, we build up our pavillon in one of Tuebingen's main shopping streets to start our Synbio-Day 2015. The pavillon was hung with infographics about iGEM and synthetic biology in general to provide general information to people coming by. We also provided food and drink to any bypassers that were interested in further discussions.</p>
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<p> On a nice Saturday morning, we built up our pavilion in one of Tuebingen's main shopping streets to start our SynBioDay 2015. </p>
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The pavilion was decorated with posters about the iGEM competition, our team and projects as well as synthetic biology in general to provide information to people passing by. We also offered food and drinks to people to encourage further discussions. </p>
  
 
<img id="schoollab" style="max-height: 250px; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2015/0/03/Team_Tuebingen_Syn_bio_day_1.jpeg.jpg"/>
 
<img id="schoollab" style="max-height: 250px; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2015/0/03/Team_Tuebingen_Syn_bio_day_1.jpeg.jpg"/>
  
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<p>People that came to our booth had the opportunity to take part in a quiz, in order to test and convey knowledge about synthetic biology. Exemplary questions were the definition of a gene and a genetically modified organism, or what happens to you if you were to consume genetically engineered food.</p>
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<p>People had the opportunity to take part in a quiz in order to test their knowledge about synthetic biology. Exemplary questions were the definition of a gene and a genetically modified organism, and what could happen to if one ate  genetically modified food. Discussions revealed a broad variety of background knowledge and attitudes towards synthetic biology. We had lots of different interested guests from all ages, ranging from children and families to a postdoc in bioinformatics or a professor for chemistry. Discussing controversial topics gave us new insights into people’s reasoning and worries for and against gene technology.</p>
  
 
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<p>The people, who came up to our booth, had a broad variety of background knowledge. Ranging from layman to a doctorand in motor proteins we had lots of different interested guests. Discussing with them was very interesting, as we could either teach them something new, or even learn something from them.</p>
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<p>In conclusion, the SynBioDay was a success as we could share our knowledge with the general public. The aim of the day was to draw some interest about our work and to prevent prejudices about synthetic biology and GMOs. </p>
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<p>In conclusion, we can say that the SynBioDay was a success and we hope, that we could share some knowledge with the general public in order to better inform them about synthetic biology and still some of their fears that were born from ignorance.</p>
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Synbio-Day

On a nice Saturday morning, we built up our pavilion in one of Tuebingen's main shopping streets to start our SynBioDay 2015.

The pavilion was decorated with posters about the iGEM competition, our team and projects as well as synthetic biology in general to provide information to people passing by. We also offered food and drinks to people to encourage further discussions.

People had the opportunity to take part in a quiz in order to test their knowledge about synthetic biology. Exemplary questions were the definition of a gene and a genetically modified organism, and what could happen to if one ate genetically modified food. Discussions revealed a broad variety of background knowledge and attitudes towards synthetic biology. We had lots of different interested guests from all ages, ranging from children and families to a postdoc in bioinformatics or a professor for chemistry. Discussing controversial topics gave us new insights into people’s reasoning and worries for and against gene technology.

In conclusion, the SynBioDay was a success as we could share our knowledge with the general public. The aim of the day was to draw some interest about our work and to prevent prejudices about synthetic biology and GMOs.