Difference between revisions of "Team:Wellesley TheTech/Project/Wetlab"
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| + | <h3>Goal</h3> | ||
| + | <p>The goal of the wetlab component of BacPack is to connect the digital experience to a hands-on, lab-based one. In the digital activity visitors explore designing bacteria to have a variety of new, useful functions for helping humans survive in different extreme environments. In the wetlab activity visitors get try their hands at the same real-world process of engineering a bacteria to have a new property of their choosing.</p> | ||
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| + | <h3>Activity Design Outline</h3> | ||
| + | <p>Visitors transform a living bacteria to make it do something new: | ||
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| + | -5 DNA options that change the physical appearance of bacteria in different ways<br> | ||
| + | -Each ‘color’ represents a bacteria function that can provide one of the 5 needs on Mars<br> | ||
| + | -Visitors pick the DNA they want to use and transform e.coli with it<br> | ||
| + | -They can see a photo of their grown ‘mars bacteria’ several days later<br> | ||
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Revision as of 18:01, 16 September 2015
WETLAB COMPONENT
Goal
The goal of the wetlab component of BacPack is to connect the digital experience to a hands-on, lab-based one. In the digital activity visitors explore designing bacteria to have a variety of new, useful functions for helping humans survive in different extreme environments. In the wetlab activity visitors get try their hands at the same real-world process of engineering a bacteria to have a new property of their choosing.
Activity Design Outline
Visitors transform a living bacteria to make it do something new:
-5 DNA options that change the physical appearance of bacteria in different ways
-Each ‘color’ represents a bacteria function that can provide one of the 5 needs on Mars
-Visitors pick the DNA they want to use and transform e.coli with it
-They can see a photo of their grown ‘mars bacteria’ several days later