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Education

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Preface

Synthetic biology aims to build artificial biosystems that operate like circuits. Using the ideas and tools of synthetic biology, many fantastic ideas are being realized. Synthetic biology is very different from the traditional biological sciences, and we want to educate the society about this new discipline, as well as the general public about smell.

For Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University

Due to the influence of COVID-19 's epidemic situation, our team was forced to choose to carry out educational popularization activities in our school. We held an educational seminar, a popular science iGEM competition and synthetic biology.
After the completion of our popular science speech, many students came to ask us questions, and we answered the relevant questions to them one by one. Through this lecture, many students say that they like synthetic biology very much, and many of them are willing to become a member of iGEM or participate in the research of synthetic biology in the future.

For Fuzhou University

When we learned that the team of Fuzhou University (another team in Fuzhou), due to the newly formed team, there are limited, or even basically no, synthetic biology-related science seminars on campus for college students and graduate students. As brother colleges, our two teams got in touch at the end of the spring semester and reached a cooperative relationship. In this year's competition, we will help each other to grow and progress together.
In the initial stage, through several project sharing and exchange meetings and human society practice exchange meetings, we initially agreed to jointly hold a synthetic biology science publicity seminar on the campus of Fuzhou University under the premise of epidemic prevention and control.
This presentation meeting is for the newly enrolled students of Fuzhou University in 2021 and students of all grades who are interested in synthetic biology. This conference has a total of more than 200 people. At the same time, there will be two teachers from the leading group of Fuzhou University. Of course, during this seminar, the students at the scene were active in thinking, actively asking questions and communicating, and the response was enthusiastic. As the organizer of the event, we also distributed corresponding prizes and souvenirs to the students. We will remember every like-minded friend on the 3rd floor of the east of Fuzhou University in September 10, 2021.

For children

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FUSHAN park
On October 3rd, we organized an theme activity of synthetic biology and nature in Fushan National Park for students from the kindergarten affiliated to Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University to get close to nature and konw some knowledge of synthetic biology.
Before the activity began, we conducted a survey of kindergarten students through their parents, and found that most of the students were around 5 years old. They had no knowledge of synthetic biology and had never participated in any activities. Therefore, in order to facilitate kindergarten children to better participate in this activity, we designed a simple and interesting game, children as long as the picture of bacteria and the name on the card match can get a reward. We also invite parents to interact with their children, which will not only deepen parents' understanding/interest in SYNTHETIC biology, but also give students a good introduction to synthetic biology. In addition, we also draw cartoon patterns of neroli and linalool on the back of bookmarks as a reward for children. Children who actively participate in the game will have a chance to win bookmarks, which will greatly increase their interest in synthetic biology.
Through this activity, we shared some simple synthetic biology tips with children to stimulate their interest in biology. In the future, we plan to hold more related activities to introduce more biological knowledge and better promote synthetic biology.
Kindergarten
The 21st century is the century of biology. In order to better popularize synthetic biology, we have held an extremely important and meaningful activity for children's scientific enlightenment.
we held a popular science education activity in a kindergarten . The activity name was "Microbial Incense Production Factory -- Entering the world of children". Many children are unfamiliar with biology and synthetic biology in order to enlighten their scientific outlook. We showed them vividly what cells and bacteria are. We compared the cells to the ants in the mountains. We also introduced our project to them and presented our preparation PPT and video to their principal. The children found biology fascinating and interesting. At the end of the popular science education, we distributed our team's gifts to the children and encouraged them to become excellent scientists when they grow up. The children were very enthusiastic and active in the activities.
This activity enlightens the children's scientific concept and sows the seeds for their future scientific career.

Before the activity began, we conducted a survey of kindergarten students through their parents, and found that most of the students were around 5 years old. They had no knowledge of synthetic biology and had never participated in any activities. Therefore, in order to facilitate kindergarten children to better participate in this activity, we designed a simple and interesting game, children as long as the picture of bacteria and the name on the card match can get a reward. We also invite parents to interact with their children, which will not only deepen parents' understanding/interest in SYNTHETIC biology, but also give students a good introduction to synthetic biology. In addition, we also draw cartoon patterns of neroli and linalool on the back of bookmarks as a reward for children. Children who actively participate in the game will have a chance to win bookmarks, which will greatly increase their interest in synthetic biology.

Through this activity, we shared some simple synthetic biology tips with children to stimulate their interest in biology. In the future, we plan to hold more related activities to introduce more biological knowledge and better promote synthetic biology.

Kindergarten

The 21st century is the century of biology. In order to better popularize synthetic biology, we have held an extremely important and meaningful activity for children's scientific enlightenment.
we held a popular science education activity in a kindergarten . The activity name was "Microbial Incense Production Factory -- Entering the world of children". Many children are unfamiliar with biology and synthetic biology in order to enlighten their scientific outlook. We showed them vividly what cells and bacteria are. We compared the cells to the ants in the mountains. We also introduced our project to them and presented our preparation PPT and video to their principal. The children found biology fascinating and interesting. At the end of the popular science education, we distributed our team's gifts to the children and encouraged them to become excellent scientists when they grow up. The children were very enthusiastic and active in the activities.
This activity enlightens the children's scientific concept and sows the seeds for their future scientific career.

For primary school students

（The consent of the guardian has been obtained for taking photos that interact with minors.）

On the morning of October 8th, our FAFU-CHINA iGEM team arrived at the third Primary School affiliated to Fuzhou Institute of Education for a popular science lecture. The purpose of this lecture is to enable primary school students to light the lamp of science, enhance their understanding of synthetic biology and create a good atmosphere for learning synthetic biology.
We warmed up the interaction with the short story of two yeasts. At the beginning, we first introduced microorganisms, and the children expressed their own views on this. What is a microbe? Where are the microbes? Does it mean that microbes we can't see don't exist? We explained this one by one. Then we extend viruses, bacteria and fungi through microbes. In the second part, we begin to introduce the uniqueness of our project.Why is it fragrant? Where does the fragrance come from? We summarized the origin of the fragrance from a microscopic point of view, which the children talked about with great delight. In the third part, we gave a brief introduction to our project. We first told a short story, and then we introduced the general steps of our project in ABC order. Finally, we accepted the children's questions and answered their bewilderment.
This activity not only brings scientific interest to the students' classroom, but also makes them love science more.

For the public

BiliBili is a video website respected by Chinese young people. We choose to use this as our publicity platform.

We have released some videos, of which this year's promotion video has received Many hits.It allows our project to be presented to the public in the form of video, and the inclusiveness and acceptance of video endows us with the convenience of publicity. Of course, it has strengthened its social ties, working to promote synthetic biology and the International Genetically engineered Machine Competition(iGEM).

Wechat public account platform is one of the subsidiary functions of wechat, mainly serving to carry out "one-to-many" media sexual activities.

This year, our team continues to use it as a platform to provide information and knowledge about synthetic biology for public advocacy. We mainly push literature knowledge and basic scientific knowledge related to the project, and establish the 2021-FAFU-China public account platform through text, pictures, audio, animation and other forms.