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3.We talked with them on topics like microorganisms in our daily life and the development of synthetic biology. Moreover, we encouraged them to know more about iGEM online.

4. All participants were informed to check their email several days later for photos of their sketch. Some participants even paid a visit to have a look at their dishes themselves. In this way, some of them were even shown how our lab works run.

A lecture on some knowledge behind Sketch in Dish was held in the Community Activity Center several days later. At the beginning, we played some video clips to show them the beauty of life and attract them. Then, some principles of our experiments and sketch in dish were explained to those kids for a deeper understanding. To estimate how much they learnt, we asked some questions based on the lecture above. Lastly, we warmly welcomed them to participate in our activities ( human practices ) next year.

One part of our experimental program is about the controlling of dental caries. By investigating, we found this disease usually trouble people around world, especially in China. Chinese people are not used to see the dentists since many people do not intended to spend much time caring about their teeth. Actually, this time we try to find a way to control or even care the dental caries, we still want people to learn something about preventing themselves from the disease. Therefore, we organized the human practice to raise public awareness on keeping good teeth.

In practice, we invited two graduate students in College of Stomatology who have the Practicing Doctors Certificate to do examination of oral cavity of participants in our university.

Students doing the examination.

Firstly, we encouraged everyone to be interested in our practice to fill a form about their daily habits such as the time they cost on each teeth brushing, the frequency they brush teeth in one day, and whether they have tried some assistant methods such as mouth wash to keep oral hygiene. After finishing the questionnaire they could accept the examination for free, and the dentists would curtly told them their teeth condition and the knowledge about prevention of dental caries. During their waiting time, we also answered various questions they asked.

After that, we took photos of their happy faces with showing their teeth and invited them to do the Lucky Draw, we prepared lots of prizes relevant to teeth health, from toothbrush to mouthwash, most people were accompanied with satisfaction, happiness and also the prizes. At the same time, we distributed the leaflets which contain the introduction of iGEM and our team, also basic information about dental caries.

This practice lasted for nearly three hours and about fifty people joined us. Most of them were students. We also met with a 5-year-old girl, some faculties and dustmen above 40 years old. So we achieved our goal which is raising public consciousness about dental caries prevention.

All of the organizer and dentists

We not only devote to research the cure of dental caries just in library, during the practice, we got the data about people troubled by the teeth disease. We believe the activity do help the participants to prevent dental caries, and individuals who just asked questions to us then took leaflets may also have the basic knowledge about the disease. Considering normal people’s attitude about dental health, we will try our best to make our program more meaningful and practicable.