Team:GA State SW Jiaotong/Education
WeChat official account
To expand the influence of our project and the effect of popularization of science, we established a WeChat Official Account named "Hnoss 2021" in July 2021 and officially started operation in September, which has gained 389 followers, with a total of 6,030 views by October 17.
To achieve the purpose of spreading synbio knowledge we also jointly created a topic named "Weekly Synbio" with Shanghaitech_China to introduce the recent frontier progress of synthetic biology with simple and easy words once a week, and at the same time increase the knowledge of synthetic biology of our team members. We used pictures ,humorous and easy words to make the scientific knowledge more interesting.We've published seven articles since we established this topic. The most clicked article has reached 3915 views; other articles also received a good response.
To spread synbio knowledge more conveniently, we also collated all particles as a scientific material.
Film
Our original intention was to design a stage play to promote the concept of synthetic biology to the public, stimulate the interest in scientific disciplines, and promote our project. Therefore, our stage play mainly focused on the ideal design of real-world applications, but not the experiment we did. We hope that such a design can make it easier for the public to accept scientific research results and innovation, This idea is more novel and exciting, and the application on the product side is closer to the real-life of the general public. This form of promotion receives much supportive feedback from various groups since it offers a better understanding of synthetic biology than showing the tedious and experiment process.
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Presentation
In late July, team members from ShanghaiTech_China went to Jiancao center to complete primary school to support teaching here. While supporting education, she also gave a lecture on synthetic biology to local elementary school and junior high school students.
On September 24, we made a presentation about the iGEM projects of GA_State_SW_Jiaotong and ShanghaiTech_China to students and faculty from different majors in Southwest Jiaotong University. This presentation expanded the popularity and influence of both projects. In the process, students from different grades and majors of SWJTU actively gave feedback on the presentation. Later, they participated in a Q&A section, demonstrating a strong interest in our project and the iGEM competition, achieved the purpose of publicity.
On October 14th we organized a small presentation at Lambert High School. Lambert High School is a prominent High School situated in Suwanee, Georgia. We have been collaborating with them on their iGem project this year, and we got to visit and present our project to them as well as introduce our college lives in Atlanta, Georgia and in Chandu, China. The projects from our partnership team ShanghaiTech_China and NPU_China, and their college lives are also intoduced at the same time to make the students have more ideas about sythetic biology.
Aimed at different audiences, we also prepared different materials to present Hnoss through a more better way.
