Team:BostonU/Collaborations/Wellesley

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Wellesley

Collaborations

Collaboration between iGEM teams is one of the most important aspect of the competition. Instead of competition where teams are struggling to out perform each other, teams are encouraged to work together for the betterment of synthetic biology as a whole. The Boston University team has taken this ideal to heart and has worked in several different ways to collaborate with other teams.

Wellesley

We were so excited to go to Wellesley College and experience their iGEM project! They created an amazing museum exhibit teaching syn bio geared towards all ages of children. This project will be featured at The Tech Museum in California. When we reached we not only got to play with their gadgets at the HCI Lab at Wellesley, but we were able to test out their exhibit! It was on a multitaction screen where we were explorers in harsh environments such as space, and would combine existing parts of the area with bacteria (using syn bio methodologies) to create necessary products such as food. Some criteria we were able to give to their first pass was to include more pertinent information to synthetic biology such as more about the science behind the reactions to engage older children, including specific parts from the iGEM registry, and how to screens. We were so excited to be troubleshooting an exhibit that children will actually be using, and excited that we could incorporate more syn bio and specifically information about iGEm into it.