Team:Tec-Chihuahua/Practices
Biochildrens: A Review of Synthetic Biology
Synthetic biology is an unfamiliar concept for the majority of people, in this case, of high school students. Therefore we decided to teach and bring them the great world of synthetic biology. ESBIN (“Escuela Secundaria Bilingüe Isaac Newton”) was the place where we went and took the great opportunity to show what is biotechnology and synthetic biology. For that, the school gave us seven groups, and along all week (September 7- September 11) we had an activity with them, which consisted in a presentation and a game.
During the presentation, we shown them what is biotechnology, the size of life, genetic engineering, what is synthetic biology, what is iGEM and of course we talk a little about what our project consists. Later, we play a game made in kahoot.it, what is a platform were you can made a quiz and create a competition.
Caro, who is a member of iGEM Tec-Chihuahua said:
In this third picture Romina playing a quiz with the students, and then is April talking in front of the group about our subject.
Also, Adrian and Manuel went to ESBIN and made the activity; they were there the last day (September 11). This activity was successful because we motivated the students to think and discover things that they don’t know; also we sowed the shed to be more interested in synthetic biology.
