Our Team was awarded with a silver medal.
Additionally, we were nominated for the best environmental project!
Bronze
Criterium | Description | Link |
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Competition Deliverables | We have delivered a promotion video, presentation video, and of course our wiki page. | You can find our promotion video here. You can soon find our presentation video in the iGEM Video Universe. |
Attributions | On the Attributions page, we describe what work our team members did as well as what other people did to help our project | You can find it on our Attributions page |
Project Description | On the Description page, we explain our project and describe the importance of it as well as why we chose it | You can find it on our Description page |
Contribution | We conducted laboratory experiments on six different, previously existing parts enabling us to add new documentation to their part pages in the part registry. | You can read more about it on our Contribution page |
Silver
Criterium | Description | Link |
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Engineering Success | We have demonstrated engineering success in various challenges that have arisen during our project. | You can read more about this on our Engineering page |
Collaboration | We organized and participated in several collaborations. | You can read more about this on our Collaboration page |
Human Practices | We have consulted multiple experts to learn more about the need and requirements of our desalination solution. We have also discussed and received input on our project from the ultimate users of our system. | You can read more about this on our Integrated Human Practices page |
Proposed Implementation | We have put considerable effort into assessing how to implement our desalination system in the real world. | You can read more about this on our Implementation page |
Gold
Criterium | Description | Link |
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Integrated Human Practices | We consulted a lot of people throughout our project. Their input and advice has guided the progression of our project and resulted in its current state and design. | You can read more about this on our Integrated Human Practices page |
Improvement of an existing part | We improved a part that was submitted in 2013 by team Braunschweig and achieved enhanced expression by changing its RBS region and adding a G-10 leader. | You can read more about this on our Improvement page |
Project Modeling | We created a model that predicts growth. It has aided us in deciding how our desalination system should be implemented and in considering what phototrophic organism it should be integrated in. | You can read more about this on our Model page |
Education & Communication | We educated the public on synthetic biology, iGEM and our project in several different ways. This included interactive discussions on multiple occasions. We also created an educational game that is featured on our wiki. | You can read more about this on our Communication page as well as on our Education page. You can play our educational memory game on our Memory page |
Excellence in another area | We, together with several other iGEM teams, created a handbook on working with phototrophs that will aid future iGEM teams and researchers choosing to work with phototrophs in their work. | You can read more about this on our Phototroph Handbook page |