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On July 18th William and Mary opened their doors to the public for a Building with Biology public forum. We wanted to bring together all our multidisciplinary partners and invited all the members of our community, not focusing on a specific demographic but rather reaching out to anybody interested in the event. We had over 80 attendees- approximately 25 children, 18 teenagers, and 40 adults.
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Over the summer our lab hosted three high school interns for a month long training program. We formed a sustained relationship with each intern through our extended one on one partnership. By personally mentoring each student, we ensured they had a firm grasp of various SynBio concepts such as cloning and PCRs. As we slowly introduced these concepts we also taught them the associating wet lab techniques until they had a foundational understanding of core Synbio topics. Over the course of the month the high schoolers became proficient at micropipetting, miniprepping, performing colony PCRS, PCR purifications and running gel electrophoresis among other wet-lab techniques. It was amazing to watch the personal growth of the interns.  
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The evening started with a catered dinner and brief opening remarks. The attendees were then divided into three categories based on age. This made the event somewhat logistically challenging as three concurrent events were happening simultaneously. We focused heavily on hands-on experiences for the children and teenagers while the adults participated in a public forum program sponsored by <b>Building with Biology</b>. The adult program was called <b>Editing our Evolution</b>, the program packets can be found Here <a href="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2018/e/e1/T--William_and_Mary--BWBpacket.pdf“ style="color:green;">"building with bio packet”</a>.  
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The interns were also assigned with researching and presenting on a Synbio topic in the field of space travel. This encouraged each of the students to conduct higher level research with University resources and the support of the iGEM team.  Davis combined his fascination of colonizing Mars with Synbio and spent time in and out of the lab researching habitat construction on Mars using 3D printing with synthesized bioplastic. Nitin dove into nutrition concerns in long term space travel and presented synthetic cyanobacteria as a food source for space colonies, and Nikhil presented on using synthetic bacteria to convert graphene oxide to graphene for a potential rocket fuel source.
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"My Name is Nikhil Arora, I had the wonderful opportunity to work with William and Mary's 2018 iGem team. It was a great experience, and I learned a few cool procedures and gained lab experience. I also learned how important the Math team and programming is for the experiments. The team members were very nice and helpful. My time working with the team peaked my interest in Biology as a career field."
 
 
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See <a href="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2018/0/0f/T--William_and_Mary--nitinpresentation.pdf" style="color:green;">Nitin</a> and <a href="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2018/5/5a/T--William_and_Mary--nikhilpresentation.pdf" style="color:green;">Nikhil</a>’s presentations, <a href="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2018/8/8d/T--William_and_Mary--davisspeakingpoints.pdf" style="color:green;">Davis</a>’s talking points.
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Student Interns

Over the summer our lab hosted three high school interns for a month long training program. We formed a sustained relationship with each intern through our extended one on one partnership. By personally mentoring each student, we ensured they had a firm grasp of various SynBio concepts such as cloning and PCRs. As we slowly introduced these concepts we also taught them the associating wet lab techniques until they had a foundational understanding of core Synbio topics. Over the course of the month the high schoolers became proficient at micropipetting, miniprepping, performing colony PCRS, PCR purifications and running gel electrophoresis among other wet-lab techniques. It was amazing to watch the personal growth of the interns.
Davis and Steph
The interns were also assigned with researching and presenting on a Synbio topic in the field of space travel. This encouraged each of the students to conduct higher level research with University resources and the support of the iGEM team. Davis combined his fascination of colonizing Mars with Synbio and spent time in and out of the lab researching habitat construction on Mars using 3D printing with synthesized bioplastic. Nitin dove into nutrition concerns in long term space travel and presented synthetic cyanobacteria as a food source for space colonies, and Nikhil presented on using synthetic bacteria to convert graphene oxide to graphene for a potential rocket fuel source. Nikhil also came to realize his passion for the math and programming aspect of iGEM, and later emailed the team reflecting on how much he enjoyed his time interning.
Nitin
Nikhil
Davis


Nikhil
See Nitin and Nikhil’s presentations, Davis’s talking points.