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<tr><td colspan=2><h3>I. Public lecture</h3></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan=2>Establishing club is an efficient way to share the knowledge and find the people who have the same interest. This year, we continued the club we established last year, and held a synthetic biology lecture at school.</td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan=2>    Our goal was to popularize the synthetic biology to the students in our school. Since lots of people had misunderstanding towards synthetic biology, we really wanted to dispel it. Therefore, we designed an interesting lecture to achieve this goal. We deeply understood that lots of students in our campus didn’t have enough knowledge of biology and they would feel bored if we teach them for whole class. In order to avoid such situation, we made an adequate preparation. We divided our lecture into three parts. The first part was a brief introduction of synthetic biology. We made a short video to clarify what synthetic biology is and its applications in real world. What's more, we also emphasized the core of synthetic biology: modularization and standardization. By interacting with the students who came to the lecture, their views toward synthetic biology was gradually refreshed.</td></tr>
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<h1>Human Practices: Education and Public Engagement Special Prize</h1>
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<tr><td colspan=2><p> The second part was the introduction of typical genetic engineering process and some basic information of genetic biology, including DNA structure, translation, PCR, etc. We wanted our club members to understand how the basics of biology can be used in synthetic biology.</p>
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<p>Innovative educational tools and public engagement activities have the ability to discuss the science behind synthetic biology, spark new scientific curiosity and establish a public dialogue about synthetic biology from voices and views outside the lab. </p>
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<p>Finally, since putting the knowledge into practice was really important, we designed a DNA extraction experiment. We used salts and detergent to break the cell membranes of bananas. Then, to increase the surface area of cells, we mashed the banana. We used a strainer to filter the banana puree and gained the solution contained DNA. Finally, by adding up alcohol, the DNA appeared at the bottom of the cup. The process of extraction is known as ethanol precipitation. The students enjoyed the experiment a lot and they gained interest to synthetic biology as well as iGEM competition. </p></td></tr>
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<p>On this page, your team should document your Education and Public Engagement work and activities. Describe your team’s efforts to include more people in shaping synthetic biology (such as creating or building upon innovative educational tools and/or public engagement activities to establish two-way dialogue with new communities, and/or engaging new groups in discussions about synthetic biology and public values). Describe your approach, why you chose it, and what was learned by everyone involved (including yourselves!).</p>
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<tr><td colspan=2><p>The Red Window Expo is our school’s traditional activity. At the expo,
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<p>This work may relate to or overlap with the work you document on your Human Practices page. Whereas Integrated Human Practices relates to the process of refining your project purpose and design, this page may highlight significant efforts that go beyond your particular project focus and/or address a significant broader concern in iGEM.
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students get an opportunity to show their versatile talents and sell their self-developed products. Moreover, student organizations can display their
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marvelous ideas and propagate their projects in the expo. This activity aims
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It was a tradition for our team to promote our project in the Red Window Expo. To draw students attention while incorporating the idea of synthetic biology
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into the activity, our team ingeniously designed a series of captivating and
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yet educative activities to promote synthetic biology and our project on
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campus. We made various types of bookmarks with delicate illustrations and
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synthetic biology definitions on them. We also made a huge amount of
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palatable fortune cookies which contain a variety of biology questions. And
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<li>links to helpful <a href="https://2018.igem.org/Human_Practices/Resources">resources</a></li>
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only students who correctly answered the questions had access to the
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“Wheel of Fortune” and the opportunity to win special gifts. Besides, while
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organizing the activities, our teammates introduced our project and the
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knowledge of synthetic biology to the participants.
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Our project draw tens of attention in the expo and was a huge success. A
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bountiful amount of students visit our stall and engaged in the colorful
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activities about synthetic biology. Students dabbled in the field of genetic
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engineering and appreciated the wisdom of biology with the lead of these
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activities. The expo also helped us to popularize iGEM in our school. Some
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students even expressed keen interest in taking part in the competition next
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<p>How have you developed new opportunities to include more people in shaping synthetic biology? Innovative educational tools and public engagement activities have the ability to establish a two-way dialogue with new communities by discussing public values and the science behind synthetic biology. Document your approach and what was learned by everyone involved to compete for this award.
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year. Meanwhile, the biology teachers in our school provided us with a
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variety of fundamental suggestions such as the design of the experiment and
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the application of our genetically engineered machine, which are stepping
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stones to our final project.</p></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan=2><h3>Feelings from team members:</h3></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan=2><p>During the Red Window Expo, we sale our DIY book marks containing the
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knowledge about organelle and cookies on the during the red window expo.
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All the teachers and students are in a exiting and enjoyable atmosphere. I felt
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so satisfied when I was watching our customers who tried hard to answer
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the questions we made, bought our bookmarks, and ate the cookies. It was
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a fantastic experience.</p>
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<div align=right>- By Levant Yan</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan=2><p>This was my first time to be fully engaged in the Red Window Expo. I was in
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charge of designing, ordering, and selling fortune cookies. I was amazed by
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students' passion in biology and was happy to see that students managed to
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answer most of our questions about genetic engineering. I hope that more
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and more students will be interested in joining BNDS iGEM team next year!</p>
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<div align=right>- By Mackie Zhou</div></td></tr>
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Revision as of 08:35, 13 October 2018

-Public Engagement

I. Public lecture

Establishing club is an efficient way to share the knowledge and find the people who have the same interest. This year, we continued the club we established last year, and held a synthetic biology lecture at school.
Our goal was to popularize the synthetic biology to the students in our school. Since lots of people had misunderstanding towards synthetic biology, we really wanted to dispel it. Therefore, we designed an interesting lecture to achieve this goal. We deeply understood that lots of students in our campus didn’t have enough knowledge of biology and they would feel bored if we teach them for whole class. In order to avoid such situation, we made an adequate preparation. We divided our lecture into three parts. The first part was a brief introduction of synthetic biology. We made a short video to clarify what synthetic biology is and its applications in real world. What's more, we also emphasized the core of synthetic biology: modularization and standardization. By interacting with the students who came to the lecture, their views toward synthetic biology was gradually refreshed.

The second part was the introduction of typical genetic engineering process and some basic information of genetic biology, including DNA structure, translation, PCR, etc. We wanted our club members to understand how the basics of biology can be used in synthetic biology.

Finally, since putting the knowledge into practice was really important, we designed a DNA extraction experiment. We used salts and detergent to break the cell membranes of bananas. Then, to increase the surface area of cells, we mashed the banana. We used a strainer to filter the banana puree and gained the solution contained DNA. Finally, by adding up alcohol, the DNA appeared at the bottom of the cup. The process of extraction is known as ethanol precipitation. The students enjoyed the experiment a lot and they gained interest to synthetic biology as well as iGEM competition.

III. Red Window Expo

The Red Window Expo is our school’s traditional activity. At the expo, students get an opportunity to show their versatile talents and sell their self-developed products. Moreover, student organizations can display their marvelous ideas and propagate their projects in the expo. This activity aims to nurture students’ individuality, inspire creativity, facilitate the interaction between different grades and enrich the campus culture. It was a tradition for our team to promote our project in the Red Window Expo. To draw students attention while incorporating the idea of synthetic biology into the activity, our team ingeniously designed a series of captivating and yet educative activities to promote synthetic biology and our project on campus. We made various types of bookmarks with delicate illustrations and synthetic biology definitions on them. We also made a huge amount of palatable fortune cookies which contain a variety of biology questions. And only students who correctly answered the questions had access to the “Wheel of Fortune” and the opportunity to win special gifts. Besides, while organizing the activities, our teammates introduced our project and the knowledge of synthetic biology to the participants. Our project draw tens of attention in the expo and was a huge success. A bountiful amount of students visit our stall and engaged in the colorful activities about synthetic biology. Students dabbled in the field of genetic engineering and appreciated the wisdom of biology with the lead of these activities. The expo also helped us to popularize iGEM in our school. Some students even expressed keen interest in taking part in the competition next year. Meanwhile, the biology teachers in our school provided us with a variety of fundamental suggestions such as the design of the experiment and the application of our genetically engineered machine, which are stepping stones to our final project.

Feelings from team members:

During the Red Window Expo, we sale our DIY book marks containing the knowledge about organelle and cookies on the during the red window expo. All the teachers and students are in a exiting and enjoyable atmosphere. I felt so satisfied when I was watching our customers who tried hard to answer the questions we made, bought our bookmarks, and ate the cookies. It was a fantastic experience.

- By Levant Yan

This was my first time to be fully engaged in the Red Window Expo. I was in charge of designing, ordering, and selling fortune cookies. I was amazed by students' passion in biology and was happy to see that students managed to answer most of our questions about genetic engineering. I hope that more and more students will be interested in joining BNDS iGEM team next year!

- By Mackie Zhou