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− | 1.Garden party for introduction of synbio to the public | + | <b>1.Garden party for introduction of synbio to the public.</b> |
Collaborated with SYSU_CHINA, we held a parade in the campus to introduce synthetic biology to the public. Our audiences included students of life sciences and many other majors, teachers of different backgrounds, and residents in the campus who are neither students nor teachers. | Collaborated with SYSU_CHINA, we held a parade in the campus to introduce synthetic biology to the public. Our audiences included students of life sciences and many other majors, teachers of different backgrounds, and residents in the campus who are neither students nor teachers. | ||
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− | <p class ="wenzi">2. Synbio Box: learn synthetic biology in a game.</p> | + | <p class ="wenzi"><b>2. Synbio Box: learn synthetic biology in a game.</b></p> |
<div class = "Boli"> “What are biological parts?<br> | <div class = "Boli"> “What are biological parts?<br> | ||
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We have promoted this game to other iGEM teams, to the public as well as to the freshmen. In the NCTU_Formosa meetup, meetup with high-school teams as well as the Peking CCiC meetup, we promoted this game to wet-lab teams, and they had great interest in this simple but enjoyable game.<br> | We have promoted this game to other iGEM teams, to the public as well as to the freshmen. In the NCTU_Formosa meetup, meetup with high-school teams as well as the Peking CCiC meetup, we promoted this game to wet-lab teams, and they had great interest in this simple but enjoyable game.<br> | ||
The game is popular among WeChat. After trying on the game, some people gave us feedbacks. According to their feedbacks, we re-designed and improved the game. Now players can have more fun playing this game with the new game settings! | The game is popular among WeChat. After trying on the game, some people gave us feedbacks. According to their feedbacks, we re-designed and improved the game. Now players can have more fun playing this game with the new game settings! | ||
− | For more details or if you want to download the game, please click <a href = " | + | For more details or if you want to download the game, please click <a href = "http://synbiobox.hapd.info">here</a>! |
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− | 3. Meetup with high-school teams and wet-lab teams<br> | + | <b>3. Meetup with high-school teams and wet-lab teams.</b><br> |
High-school teams are dedicated to development of mobile applications. Without systematic knowledge of life sciences, they knew less about synthetic biology than us. Also, they needed advice on how to design software to meet the needs of synthetic biology community.<br> | High-school teams are dedicated to development of mobile applications. Without systematic knowledge of life sciences, they knew less about synthetic biology than us. Also, they needed advice on how to design software to meet the needs of synthetic biology community.<br> | ||
In summer, a meetup with high-school teams and wet-lab teams was held in the campus. At the beginning of the meetup we first introduced our project to high-school teams and wet-lab teams. Though it was still a proof-of-concept idea, the feedbacks that they gave us after they listened to our presentation provided us with insightful and meaningful suggestions.<br> | In summer, a meetup with high-school teams and wet-lab teams was held in the campus. At the beginning of the meetup we first introduced our project to high-school teams and wet-lab teams. Though it was still a proof-of-concept idea, the feedbacks that they gave us after they listened to our presentation provided us with insightful and meaningful suggestions.<br> | ||
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− | + | <b>4. A mini lecture to freshmen of life sciences.</b><br> | |
iGEM is a competition for the future generation. To attract more freshmen to the iGEM competition, as well as engage them into the practices of synthetic biology, we held a mini lecture to the 2015 freshmen of School of Life Sciences, SYSU.<br> | iGEM is a competition for the future generation. To attract more freshmen to the iGEM competition, as well as engage them into the practices of synthetic biology, we held a mini lecture to the 2015 freshmen of School of Life Sciences, SYSU.<br> | ||
For the first part, Zhengyang Wen introduced to the freshmen some basic knowledge of Synbio. Then Weilin Xu introduced what is iGEM. Then came the Xiao Feng’s introduction to our project, and Yi Shi’s introduction to Synbio Box.<br> | For the first part, Zhengyang Wen introduced to the freshmen some basic knowledge of Synbio. Then Weilin Xu introduced what is iGEM. Then came the Xiao Feng’s introduction to our project, and Yi Shi’s introduction to Synbio Box.<br> | ||
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Latest revision as of 15:06, 1 October 2015
Public Engagement and Education
Motivations:
iGEM is not only a competition standing at the front of synthetic biology, but also a good chance and a platform for future scientists and engineers to introduce synthetic biology to the public. Further, we should never “work behind closed doors” — though non-technical individuals may lack knowledge about synbio, they might provide us with many sparkling ideas and inspirations on our projects. More importantly, if our project is hardly understandable to the general public, then it cannot be a successful one. If we can establish a bi-directional communication with the public, we can get more feedbacks on our project and, based on the feedbacks, we can make our project more accessible not only to the scientists but also to the public.
Practices:
- Watch a Video
- Design a Circuit
- Project Sharing
The public are interested in the games.
Photo of team members at the parade in the games.
This remark did give us much inspiration: in this world full of competition and cooperation, why not make design a collaboration one? Via collaboration and co-development, we can even construct designs much more complex than we can ever imagine. (A good example is the sequencing of human genome, which was done by collaboration between several countries.)
Plus, most of our audiences have the same question:
Which is the one of the biggest challenges remaining unsolved.
2. Synbio Box: learn synthetic biology in a game.
What are their functions?”
So we designed a game, Synbio Box, to help introduce synthetic biology to the public. Target players of this game is people who have not ever learned synthetic biology but have interested in it. We have promoted this game to other iGEM teams, to the public as well as to the freshmen. In the NCTU_Formosa meetup, meetup with high-school teams as well as the Peking CCiC meetup, we promoted this game to wet-lab teams, and they had great interest in this simple but enjoyable game.
The game is popular among WeChat. After trying on the game, some people gave us feedbacks. According to their feedbacks, we re-designed and improved the game. Now players can have more fun playing this game with the new game settings! For more details or if you want to download the game, please click here!
Zhengyang Wen is introducing Synbio Box in the meetup with high-school teams and wet-lab teams.
Qianhui Wan is introducing Synbio Box in the Peking CCiC meetup.
High-school teams are dedicated to development of mobile applications. Without systematic knowledge of life sciences, they knew less about synthetic biology than us. Also, they needed advice on how to design software to meet the needs of synthetic biology community.
In summer, a meetup with high-school teams and wet-lab teams was held in the campus. At the beginning of the meetup we first introduced our project to high-school teams and wet-lab teams. Though it was still a proof-of-concept idea, the feedbacks that they gave us after they listened to our presentation provided us with insightful and meaningful suggestions.
In our presentation we introduced the game, Synbio Box, which was designed and implemented by us. The game combined basic knowledge in synthetic biology with the fun provided by the game. One of the feedbacks that high-school teams gave us is:
Zhengyang Wen is introducing our project in the meetup with high-school teams and wet-lab teams.
The fact that the game, Synbio Box, was so attractive to high-school teams is beyond our wildest expectation. Maybe our project should turn “professionals-oriented” to “public-oriented” ?
iGEM is a competition for the future generation. To attract more freshmen to the iGEM competition, as well as engage them into the practices of synthetic biology, we held a mini lecture to the 2015 freshmen of School of Life Sciences, SYSU.
For the first part, Zhengyang Wen introduced to the freshmen some basic knowledge of Synbio. Then Weilin Xu introduced what is iGEM. Then came the Xiao Feng’s introduction to our project, and Yi Shi’s introduction to Synbio Box.
When Yi Shi was introducing the “Synbio Box” mobile game to them, they were so surprised to find out that, although the game is on Synbio, it is very easy to play!
After Yi Shi finished her introduction to the game, Q & A session began. The questions raised by the freshmen were so professional. They were interested in 3A assembly, and asked us why the 3A assembly would work for standard parts. Also, they asked us many questions on our project or the project of last year. One of the questions, concerning the project of last year FLAME, is:
Yi Shi is introducing our project in the mini lecture to freshmen of life sciences.
It does not provide enough flexibility. ”
We believe that, flexibility and user-friendliness are not contradictory. For advanced users, we should provide more flexibility to them; but for amateurs, we should provide them with a user-friendly user interface, and try our best to cut down the unnecessary steps that users are not familiar with.
5. Poker on Safety
We decided to design a pack of poker, which has both practicability and general significance.
The design of text (which will be printed on the poker) is not easy, because the biosafety problems usually cannot be explained clearly in a few words, but space in poker is limited. So we designed the text as elaborate and concise as possible, to solve this contradiction. According to the suit of cards we design four parts, including the potential dangers brought by the development of biotechnology, the impact of biosafety on human beings, biosafety in agriculture, animal husbandry and food industry, laboratory biosafety guide. The poker not only aims to the promotion of science, but also introduction to biosafety in lab.
We hope that when people are playing poker, they are able to pick up some knowledge on biosafety. Hopefully scientists and non-scientists alike can learn something from the poker.
Here shows some of the poker.
Qianhui Wan and Zhilu He are playing card as well as leaning biosafety.