Team:SZPT-CHINA/Education
Education
Introduction
Daily Life
"Skin League"
College
Social Media
Message
Introduction:
" Education " is the process of teaching others to think with a tool, knowledge, which is also a
giant challenge to us. In order to better to popularize synthetic biology for people of
different ages and different educational levels, our team designed and carried out a series of
activities, such as:
1. Designed children's picture book " Bacteria War "
2. Designed a series of " synthetic biology " jigsaw puzzles over / about students from primary to junior school
3. Carry out a special activity for college students--bring synthetic biology into the laboratory
4. Develop regular synthetic biology and science courses and live broadcasts for social workers on social media
5. Designed a special arrangement for the elderly--the companionship of synthetic biology
(please click to view for details)
6. Provided unique education for non-professional groups--synthetic biology comes into daily life.
Please click on the communication page “Materials” part
1. Designed children's picture book " Bacteria War "
2. Designed a series of " synthetic biology " jigsaw puzzles over / about students from primary to junior school
3. Carry out a special activity for college students--bring synthetic biology into the laboratory
4. Develop regular synthetic biology and science courses and live broadcasts for social workers on social media
5. Designed a special arrangement for the elderly--the companionship of synthetic biology
(please click to view for details)
6. Provided unique education for non-professional groups--synthetic biology comes into daily life.
Please click on the communication page “Materials” part
Synthetic Biology Comes to Daily Life:
Fire is one of the main disasters among various kinds of disasters that most frequently and
universally
endangers the safety of the people and property. Almost all fires are accompanied by personal
burns. The
physical and psychological damage caused by burn is very huge and the treatment
process
is
long and easy
to cause infection. Therefore, we have carried out fire
protection
education as the first step for our
synthetic biology to enter daily life.
Figue 1. Went to 366 street for fire drill on July 30, 2021
We devoted ourselves to the preaching of fire protection knowledge and more focused on the
preaching
of
our project knowledge. We not only taught non-professionals how to prevent fires, but also
taught
them
what to do to minimize the damage in case of burns? What is synthetic biology behind fire
safety?
This
move was deeply loved by the local people and won unanimous praise. This is undoubtedly a first
step
to
do a good job in education for us, because we have made synthetic biology come into daily life!
（For details, please click to watch the video）
"Skin League"
"Seeking common ground while reserving differences" has established a bridge of friendly
exchanges for China and even the rest of the world. Therefore, we found that there were three
teams included WHU & HUST & NUDT working on skin-related projects while our team was looking for
partners. We established the "Skin League" organization after we
discussed online and we jointly
produced a brochure to promote our project which provided great
convenience for popularizing
skin related knowledge for all kinds of people.
Figure 2. Skin League "Group Photo"
Figure 3. A physical map of the brochure
Figure 4. Diagram of the process of the “skin league” using the brochure to preach
"Skin League" not only made our brochures into physical objects, but we also used
these brochures to conduct our science popularization activities offline. Our four teams have
carried out different levels of science popularization in their respective areas. We not only
popularize science among college students around us, but also put our physical brochures in our
school or nearby libraries so that we can more many people go to learn about our project, and
increase everyone's interest and hobby in synthetic biology.
Figure 5. 2021-SZPT-CHINA brochure--Tips on Burned Skin
Figure 6. 2021 WHU-China brochure--Propionibacterium acnes
Figure 7. 2021 HUST2-China brochure--Tips for Acne Prevention and Treatment
Figure 8. 2021 NUDT_CHINA brochure--Light-Mediated Mammalian Cell Cycle Regulation
College
College students are a special group who are receiving basic higher education. They
are the frontier groups of new technologies and new ideas in society, and senior professionals
being cultivated by the state. College students represent the young and energetic people and are
the pillars of social progress. Therefore, we took this special group as a key
target and
carried out a series of synthetic biology popularization activities.
Science
Figure 9. Went to the university classroom for offline preaching on July 15, 2021
We gave offline lectures in the classroom for more than 70 college
students during their spare
time. We helped them understood our project, and conducted in-depth popularization of synthetic
biology. We heard students expressing their ideas: Synthetic biology is so amazing! We believe
this is the best feedback for us. After the lecture, we also received news from many students
that they were curious about the experiment and wanted to have a try.
Synthetic Biology Walks into the Laboratory
Figure 10. Lead college students to experience the joy of synthetic biology in the laboratory from July 17 to 23, 2021
Many college students showed their expectations and hope that we will hold this activity more
often since the fluorescent protein DIY activities done in the early stage were well received.
Therefore, we decided to hold a week-long summer camp during the summer
vacation to give
non-biological students a better understanding of synthetic biology and biology, and actually
experience the biological experiments. 14 college students were invited into
the laboratory for
this event due to the epidemic. We have also gained experience from the last event which made
our event successful! We have prepared the schedule in advance and each
experiment included
experimental safety guidance, experimental principle explanation, experimental operation
explanation, and so on, and carried out safety supervision throughout the
process.
Product Experience
Figure 11. Took college students to experience our products on September 25, 2021
we came up with new ideas in order to allow college students to know our
projects
more appropriately. we organized an event deliberately so that students would no
longer have the
feeling that "synthetic biology was far away from them. Look! The joy they showed when they
picked up our products, which is our biggest motivation for the next popularization. We
hope
that synthetic biology will come into daily life and bring more convenience to people in
life.
Social Media
We synchronize the education work online in order to allow our education work to affect
more
people. In China, wechat official accounts are widely used by media and enterprises
as a tool to
increase publicity by sending daily articles to fans who follow the account. This year,
SZPT-CHINA signed up for its own wechat public account and gained 508
followers. In the past
eight months, SZPT-CHINA 's Wechat public account has posted 102 articles and
gained more than
20000 pageviews. The content of articles includes team promotion, publicity for the
project,
popularization of synthetic biology, a summary of each activity and sharing of some excellent
projects of iGEM competition in previous years, or programs for learning synthetic biology.
At the same time, we also through major social media, such as WeChat, Bilibili, Twitter, etc.,
we have made a number of small videos for children and developed synthetic biology
learning
plans for social workers who are interested in synthetic biology. We also launched
an online
live broadcast at the same time.
Synthetic Biology Learning Program
Figure 12. The number of participants in each course of study
| Theme | Links（Click to see translation) | |
| Phase one | What is "synthetic life"? | Tweet, please click to view for details |
| Phase two | Engineering thinking: synthesize life like Lego? | Tweet, please click to view for details |
| Phase three | Data Driven: Improve Synthetic Life? | Tweet, please click to view for details |
| Phase four | Accelerate evolution: acquire functions that are not available in nature | Tweet, please click to view for details |
| Phase five | Applications of synthetic biology | Tweet, please click to view for details |
| Phase six | Applications of synthetic biology(2) | Tweet, please click to view for details |
| Phase seven | Applications of synthetic biology(3) | Tweet, please click to view for details |
| Phase eight | Applications of synthetic biology(4) | Tweet, please click to view for details |
| Phase nine | Conclusion: How far is it to create life | Tweet, please click to view for details |
| Phase ten | Synthetic biology in daily life | PPT, please click to view for details |
We regularly published an article on synthetic biology through the
WeChat
official account and
PPT. This provides great convenience for those who don’t have time to come
to the site to learn.
They can learn about synthetic biology anytime and anywhere. We could also
gather everyone's
questions in real time and give corresponding answers. We summarized some excellent iGEM
projects and translated English information into Chinese, so that the Chinese public can more
easily understand the information and further disseminate them. We could also gather everyone's
questions in real time and give corresponding answers.
"Synthetic Biology in Life" Live Broadcast
Most people think that synthetic biology is a high-end term. But what exactly is
synthetic biology? Is it really out of reach? What is the connection between synthetic biology
and our lives? We launched a series of live broadcasts for non-biological college students,
which were jointly organized by SZPT-CHINA & NWU-CHINA-A & TJU-CHINA & TJUSLS-CHINA. We
mainly
introduced the project and talked about synthetic biology relevant to our lives.
Figure 14. 2021 SZPT-CHINA live broadcast feedback pictures
I believe everyone is not unfamiliar when talk about medicine. It became mysterious when
medicine is combined with synthetic biology. The live broadcast of 2021 SZPT-CHINA takes
everyone into synthetic biology. We introduced in an interesting and easy-to-understand way to
show how we used synthetic biology to improve bacterial genes, how we made chewing gum and
yogurt into drugs, and how to improve coconuts as a burn dressing.
Figure 15. NWU-CHINA-A live picture
Indigo dyes must be familiar to everyone. As a popular color, indigo has a long
history of development. In this issue of synthetic biology in daily life, we were based on
NWU-CHINA-A's iGEM project this year to introduce everyone to the development process of indigo
dyes and the concept of it.
Figure 16. TJU-CHINA live picture
Health is the most concerned issue for each of us. It was introduced the knowledge of in vivo
delivery of biomacromolecule drugs and the advantages of the chromosome-free drug delivery
model, and bring a brief introduction to CRISPR technology during the live broadcast based on
the iGEM project in Tianjin this year.
Figure 17. TJUSLS-CHINA live picture
Garbage-where is it when we ignore or avoid it in our lives and when it is discarded
by us. Where does it go? What can synthetic biology do? We were based on TJUSLS-CHINA's iGEM
project this year to share ideas in the live broadcast room. In the world we discarded, maybe we
are able to create a better life.
Message:
Letting synthetic biology comes into our lives and bringing convenience to our lives
motivates us a lot in the process of education and synthetic biology popularization. It is very
difficult for us, but the happiness and pride we get are priceless. We will be always on
the
way. We will insist on bringing synthetic biology into more people's daily lives!
We believe
that as long as we do it persistently, we will succeed.