Team:Estonia TUIT/workshopsjson

{

"workshops": [
{
"name": "Escape Room",
"date": "",
"descrition": "Two years in a row now, the students from our team have organized an escape room quest for the visitors of the Interactive Education event. The quest consists of several tasks, at the end of which visitors have to find one letter and a hint for the next task. The code word for completing the quest is “SALSA” - since the protein with the same abbreviation is a major point of interest in our project.
Since our project this year is focused on dental hygiene, the plot of the escape room followed the steps and logic of a usual visit to the doctor's office. However, this time the visitors are more motivated to complete the quest, as in case they do not manage to find a fake news article about our project, the doctor will extract their sick tooth instead of treating it. Through several tasks of identifying the problematic tooth, researching in dentistry books, and looking for hints hidden between the objects in the room - like cavities hidden between teeth.

‘Medical facilities make you feel uncomfortable, don't they? You expect an unpleasant, maybe even painful experience. And sometimes you have an urge to leave immediately, to disappear, to escape…
Our team members definitely do. And we designed a game around that feeling. Welcome to Escape Room. You are in the dentist's office. Immediately your teeth start to hurt as if they expect the drilling, scraping... maybe some teeth will stay here forever. The dentist hasn't come yet, and you are alone in the room. You look around and start noticing things that you missed at first. You see a strange toy, it smiles, and you envy its confident smile. You start wandering around the room, and some textbook catches your attention. You open the book and see a spark. You take a UV lamp from the table and use it to search for a secret message… You read: 'SALSASMILE - your shortcut to healthy teeth’. You have never heard of it; you know Salsa hot sauce, even went to a Salsa dancing evening, but nothing about SALSASMILE. You hear the approaching steps, turn around and see a journal article on the benchtop. It states that University of Tartu students develop a new therapeutic strategy against caries that will help people prevent tooth decay. You start to feel joy in your heart. You want to escape and never come back. You run out of the room. A few minutes later, a dentist comes in, he smiles… Everything went according to his plan!’",
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},
{
"name": "Art Exhibition 'The greatest scientists are artists as well.'",
"date": "",
"descrition": "Our team believes that beauty is everywhere, art is everywhere, and science can also be art. Just look at the cells under the microscope or the DNA gels under UV - aren't these amazing? Being scientists taught us to be creative and showed us that you could find beauty in everything, even if something in your experiment goes wrong.
To display biology wet lab routines and to let our visitors see how charming biology can be, we exhibit pictures taken by our teammates while they were spending days and nights in the lab. We also received some digital art photos through a collaboration with another team. The photos were printed out and displayed in frames with the authors and their contact information. Besides, we created collages using the iGEM team's postcards of each season showing our history through the years and explaining to the visitors our scientific iGEM projects over the years. We also demonstrated drawings of artists inspired by science.
The main purpose of our Art exhibition is not only to show how fascinating science can be but also to encourage people to start their scientific journey, find out a little bit more about synthetic biology, inspire, motivate and show the beauty of science! <object data='https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2021/f/f2/T--Estonia_TUIT--DigitalPhotosOurs.pdf' type='application/pdf' width='80%' height='800wb'></object><object data='https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2021/b/b0/T--Estonia_TUIT--DigitalPhotosNotOurs.pdf' type='application/pdf' width='80%' height='800wb'></object>",
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},
{
"name": "Kahoot!",
"date": "",
"descrition": "Challenge your friends, test your knowledge, get a lucky guess, win prizes, learn something new and have fun! Who knew quizzes could be so exciting! We made a Kahoot! to show the amazing world we live in, and stimulate you to learn more about biology! <object data='https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2021/9/9c/T--Estonia_TUIT--Kahoot.pdf' type='application/pdf' width='80%' height='800wb'></object> ",
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},
{
"name": "Educative quiz",
"date": "",
"descrition": "Estonia_TUIT aims to spread scientific knowledge to a broader audience. And there is no broader audience than the Internet audience! That is why we created a quiz and distributed it online. The quiz fulfilled several goals:
1.Engage and motivate people to learn life science
2.Test the general knowledge of the participant
3.Provide educational materials
4.Use the results of the quiz to highlight people’s awareness about the topics.

We were happy to see that almost all our participants have some knowledge about genetics: most of our respondents, around 80%, had some knowledge about mutations, human karyotype, and the number of chromosomes that leads to the appearance of a Down syndrome. However, only 36% of individuals could select correct definitions of a gene. More than 60% of respondents were aware of the characteristics of bacteria.
To fill this gap in public knowledge, we sent out the file with explanations to all participants.
We believe our approach could be a first step on a way of to more educated society.<object data='https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2021/4/47/T--Estonia_TUIT--iGEM_quiz_explanation.pdf' type='application/pdf' width='80%' height='800wb'></object>",
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},
{
"name": "Microscopy",
"date": "",
"descrition": "We all see plant leaves every day, but do we really? What if we look closer, on a microscopic level, what will be unveiled? Feeling excited? Us too! That is why we always bring the microscope to workshops and show participants plant leaves and yeast cells so they can look at what these things look like under the microscope. We want to encourage people's interest in science, so we let them get a peek behind the curtains of our everyday laboratory routine. ",
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},
{
"name": "Chromatography flowers",
"date": "",
"descrition": "We believe that everything in life should be beautiful. And our paper chromatography experiment is a good example of this. It is 50% science and 50% art. Participants make paper roses and color them using different markers.
The capillary effect allows for dyes to migrate in the filter paper and produce extraordinarily colorful pallets and patterns.<a href='https://video.igem.org/videos/embed/d41b0425-a431-4e53-9015-ccd48c49103d'>Chromatography Flowers Video Tutorial</a>

}