Team:SZ SHD/Communication
Communication
Conference of China iGEMer Community (CCiC)
The 8th CCiC held in Shanghai is the most prominent academic conference in China where all the teams get the opportunity to present, exchange ideas and make further promotions on their projects. Due to the COVID, we participated and had a presentation online. The whole event was live-streamed via Bilibili. We talked about our projects, including what we had done so far in experiments, human practice, math modeling, and our long-term objective based on our project through the online meeting.
Also with interactions, we harvested comments from various aspects, got to know other teams' projects, answered their questions, and eventually successfully contacted a few teams for further collaboration. Through this exchange meeting, we found another partner who can cooperate on the project: FAFU.
Highschool Teams HP Experience Exchange
Team SDSZ, Team Yucai_SZ, Team Team NDNF_China, Team GCGS, Team GreatBay_China
In this meet up, all participants introduced their project progress. We shared some interviews and questionary experiences we have done and reviewed our failures.
We were invited by SDSZ_China to participate in this online meet-up on September 21st. All participants introduced their project progress. We contributed a presentation and shared our story of companies' interviews and questionary experiences we have done and reviewed our failures. On the other hand, speeches from other teams gave us extraordinary inspirations about the outstretched diversity of human practice events, such as a tour of work yards, ancient wall paintings imitation for primary school students, and contact the counterfeit experts.
Plastic Era Charity Gallery
This gallery was based on the topic of environmental plastic pollution and sustainable development, with members from the 2021 NDNF team and iGEM 2019 team GreatBay_SZ.
Since the purpose of our project is to make a biological hair removal cream, and PHA particles are a kind of scrub material suitable for replacing plastic particles in cleaning products, this led us to join this PHA exhibition.
We introduced the background of synthetic biological materials under the environment conservation condition to autistic youths with fun props, including sealing wax, drawing paper, and protein pigment models made by organism digestible PHA. During the exhibition, there are some educational activities for young children, and there are many children with hearing impairments. We will teach them the knowledge of synthetic biology into simple and interesting games.
Exploitation of the Works of Nature Education Propaganda
Synthetic biology is not only a white coat in the laboratory, but also a colorful biological carnival outside the laboratory. SZ-SHD takes everyone to discover the true charm of cutting-edge science:
In the wave of historical change, humans and microbes have always maintained inextricably linked connections. Microbes that were born hundreds of millions of years earlier than humans have gradually been utilized and transformed by humans with the rapid development of human science and technology. Looking back at the past, we stand on the shoulders of giants; looking at the future, this world is created by us. We hope that, as pioneers, we can create the future of mankind in this place, this field, and this era.
Lecture & Co-curriculum Activity in Dulwich International Highschool Suzhou
We were invited to the open day of Dulwich High School and Suzhou High School. Public visitors were free to watch everything that was processed through our experiment. We had an introduction of iGEM to them, answering questions such as what happened when electrophoresis was going on.
We recruited students interesting in synthetic biology and the iGEM competition from all year groups (year 11-year 13) of Dulwich International High School Suzhou. We sat a weekly meeting on the molecule biology introductory theory lesson, sharing our exploration in the current project. We invited them to enter our lab and engaged in simple lab work. Of course, they were trained to understand how to be safe in the lab.
We found that junior and high school students have a very low level of understanding of synthetic biology, so we communicated with the school to establish relevant interest courses and club activities.
