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               We advocate more and more people approaching deep into the world of synthetic biology. Through editing a picture book for children, called ‘The adventure of Xinye’, we taught interesting stories based on advanced synthetic biological technologies to children and show them how the technologies have changed our daily life. Moreover, as the core promoter of public engagement, we arranged a serious of activities to enlarge our influence and spread iGEM idea to every age group. Thus, we not only performed a TV show for children but volunteered to teach public courses of synthetic biology for teenagers in Tianjin SOS Children Center as well. We also developed good relationship with high school teachers and invited senior students to visit our lab on Open-Up day, which help students gain better understanding of the knowledge they learn in biology classes. The Synthetic biology can be a popular science by our effort.
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               We advocate more and more people approaching into the world of synthetic biology. A serious of activities were arranged to enlarge our influence and spread synthetic biology to every age group. We not only performed a TV show for children but volunteered to teach public courses of synthetic biology for teenagers in Tianjin SOS Children Center as well. We developed good relationship with high school teachers, addressed senior students and invited teenagers and parents to visit our lab on Open-Up Day, which helped them gain better understanding of the knowledge they learn in class. <br>
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All those feedbacked us for the special gift: through a picture book for children named The adventure of Xinye, we told interesting stories based on advanced synthetic biological technologies to children and showed them how the technologies have changed our daily life. The Synthetic biology can be a popular science with our effort.
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                  Malus spectablils is the symbol flower of Tianjin University and every Spring,the Malus spectabilis festival is a grand party on campus. Every year, thousands of citizens  visit the campus to appreciate the lovely fowers. In the meatime, it is also a good time for diverse student organization to display their extrodinary achievement to the public. We set up our stall early in the morning, exhibited the poster, held little games spreading knowledge of synthetic biology and do experimental performances. With adequate preparation, we attract batches of people to our stall.<br>
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                  Aimed at making synthetic biology easier to understand for ordinary people, we decided to write a serious of popular science stories based on advanced synthetic biological technology as well as previous successful iGEM program. It is the most important that we manage to adjust scientific knowledge to a proper form suitable for children and people without systematic biological learning. In our stories, we set a protagonist named XinYe (means newborn leaf in English), a gifted boy studying in a biology lab with Professor Yingjin Yuan, our PI. The mainline of the book tells his adventure recording how he helps various microorganisms to solve problems using the knowledge of synthetic biology. Many cartoon figures was added to attract young readers and help them understand the biological principle better. <br>
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                  However, during the event, we found that public understanding of biotechnology stay in traditional plant and animal cells in biology books. Others also complained that advanced concept of synthetic biology seems to be far from reality, which gives a signal that synthetic biology should be more accessible and popular science by our endeavors.
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In other activities, many participants made practical suggestions to polish our writing and typesetting. Never can we accomplish the job without their support. It’s worth mentioning that our book is sponsored by the National Ministry of science and Technology and will be published around the world by the middle of October. So far it is the first popular science book about synthetic biology published for children in China. <br>
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Furthermore, we plan to expand the reading target of our books by writing a more professional synthetic biological book for teenagers in middle school and high school. By now, we have finished the first draft and the book is planed to be published by November.
 
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                  Aimed at making synthetic biology easier to understand for ordinary people, we decided to write a serious of popular science stories based on advanced synthetic biological technology as well as previous successful iGEM pregram, and adjusted them in a proper form suitable for children. In our stories, we set a protagonist named XinYe, who is a gifted boy studying in a biology lab with Professor Yingjin Yuan, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University. The mainline of the book is the adventure of XinYe recording how he helps various microorganisms to solve problems using the knowledge of synthetic biology. Many cartoon figures was added to attract young readers and help them understand the biological principle.<br>
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                Malus spectabilis is the symbol flower of Tianjin University and every Spring we hold the festival as a grand party to public. Every year when the flowers bloom, thousands of citizens visit our campus to appreciate the lovely flowers. In the meantime, it is also a good time for diverse student organization to display their extraordinary achievements to the public. We set up our stall early in the morning, exhibited the poster, played interesting games that spread knowledge of synthetic biology and did experimental performances. With adequate preparation and smart ideas, we attracted batches of people to adore our activities.<br>
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However, during the event, we found that people’s understanding of biotechnology have stayed in traditional plants and animal cells in biology books. They also complained that advanced concept of synthetic biology seems to be far from reality, which gives us a signal that synthetic biology should be more accessible and popular science by our endeavors.  
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                   To give the children a more vivid experience of exploring synthetic biology, we organized a TV show broadcast on Tianjin TV station. On September 23th, we invited over 20 families to our lab. After teaching them some basic knowledge of microorganism and introducing our project “Life Tik Tok” about biological clock, each kid did a simple biology experiment with our safety guardance, such as observing the specimen by microscope, running the DNA electrophoresis, etc. During this happy period, bursts of laughter kept floating out of our lab and all the kids showed great curiosity about the new microorganism world. Meanwhile we discussed the picture book with their parents. They gave us much advice on how to make the book more accessible for kids. After the activity, the record was programmed by the TV station and broadcast circularly.
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                   We focus on building bridge between biology textbook and advanced synthetic biology, setting up a call line between teenagers and parents. In August 19th, we held an laboratory open-up event for both teenagers and parents nation-wide. About 100 people participated in the activity. In our lab, we operated experimental apparatus to them and explained how to do a well-designed experiment following certain protocol. Meanwhile, we also taught them several experiment skills and safety issues that need to pay attention on. The final part appeared to be their favorite that we shared our academic experience about studying synthetic biology and participating in iGEM competition. Our effort was deeply appreciated by every visitor.
 
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                   We visited many local high schools and stay connected with biology teachers. Some of them welcome us to do experiments for the students. We focus on building bridge between high school biology text book and advanced synthetic biology. For that, we prepared a detailed schedule contain: gene manipulation technique, the concept of synthetic biology and its application in reality, introduction of iGEM project, example of our program. To our surprise, we received countless fans of synthetic biology and decided to open up our laboratory to the students.
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                   To give children a more vivid experience of exploring synthetic biology, we organized a TV show broadcast on <strong>Tianjin TV station</strong>. On September 23th, we invited over 20 families to our lab. After teaching them some basic knowledge of microorganism and introducing our project, each kid did a simple biology experiment with our security guard, such as observing the specimen by microscope, running the DNA electrophoresis, etc. During this happy period, bursts of laughter kept floating out of our lab and all the kids showed great curiosity about the new microorganism world. Meanwhile we discussed the picture book with their parents. They gave us much helpful advice on how to make the book more accessible for kids. After the activity, the record was programmed by the TV station and broadcast circularly.
 
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                  Therefore, on Summer vocation, we held an laboratory open-up event for local high school students. In our lab, we operated experimental apparatus to them and explained how to do a well-designed experiment following certain protocol. Meanwhile, we also taught them several experiment skills and safety issues that need to pay attention. Eventually, we shared our acadamic experience about studying synthetic biology and participating iGEM competition. Our effort were deeply apreciated by their high school biology teachers.
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                  In a sunny day of October 2, we went to the Tianjin SOS Children Village which is the largest international children village in China. We have reached an agreement with teachers and volunteered to have a series of synthetic biology class for the children regularly. In our first course, we brought the newly-published picture book. The children in the village expressed huge interest in the colourful pictures and kept asking us questions about books. Through communicating with them wholeheartedly, we found that as an iGEMer it is our responsibility to not only spread knowledge to those children, but show them the spirit of exploring new science. Although synthetic biology is a abstruse concept for children, they began to understand modern biology technology is making a difference in the real life and many said ‘they want to be biology scientists in the future!
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                  In China, ‘Second Class’ means a supplement to the normal class where students acquire knowledge out of textbooks. We visited many local high schools and still stay connected with a handful of biology teachers, majority of which warmly welcome us to do and explain experiments for students. We hit it off with each other as soon as we met. Worked with NKU, TUST, and OUC, we prepared a detailed schedule containing: gene manipulation technique, the concept of synthetic biology and its application in reality, introduction of iGEM project and example of our program. You can find more details about the collaboration in the <a href="https://2018.igem.org/Team:Tianjin/Human_Practices">collaboration</a>.
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To our great surprise, we received countless fans of synthetic biology and they showed great passion about the amazing field. They listened carefully and asked questions actively. The energetic and creative thoughts provided us valuable inspiration about our program and the picture book mentioned above. It was our pleasure to expose them to shallow biology research and we sent them the most sincere invitation to our next Open-up Day.
 
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                   The idea of our project was originated from the Nobel Price in Medicine in 2017. We first conducted a survey about how the living patterns (especially sleep) can influnce people’s life and the public expectation for biological techiques to change the situation. Through our effort, we find the KaiABC system can periodically regulate gene expression in other species. Since our project is a fundamental research, we have cooperated with six universities to do research on the transformation model of biotechnology achievements, seeking to find proper application. During the investigation, we made a technical evaluation of the project results and conducted market analysis for the subsequent periodic expression products. We also visited Institute of Industrial Biotechnology to seek advice from experts and learn the procedure of industry-university-research cooperation. According to the investigation, we have revised project design and descied the application of our project.
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Education and Public Engagement

We advocate more and more people approaching into the world of synthetic biology. A serious of activities were arranged to enlarge our influence and spread synthetic biology to every age group. We not only performed a TV show for children but volunteered to teach public courses of synthetic biology for teenagers in Tianjin SOS Children Center as well. We developed good relationship with high school teachers, addressed senior students and invited teenagers and parents to visit our lab on Open-Up Day, which helped them gain better understanding of the knowledge they learn in class.
All those feedbacked us for the special gift: through a picture book for children named The adventure of Xinye, we told interesting stories based on advanced synthetic biological technologies to children and showed them how the technologies have changed our daily life. The Synthetic biology can be a popular science with our effort.

A gift for children

Aimed at making synthetic biology easier to understand for ordinary people, we decided to write a serious of popular science stories based on advanced synthetic biological technology as well as previous successful iGEM program. It is the most important that we manage to adjust scientific knowledge to a proper form suitable for children and people without systematic biological learning. In our stories, we set a protagonist named XinYe (means newborn leaf in English), a gifted boy studying in a biology lab with Professor Yingjin Yuan, our PI. The mainline of the book tells his adventure recording how he helps various microorganisms to solve problems using the knowledge of synthetic biology. Many cartoon figures was added to attract young readers and help them understand the biological principle better.
In other activities, many participants made practical suggestions to polish our writing and typesetting. Never can we accomplish the job without their support. It’s worth mentioning that our book is sponsored by the National Ministry of science and Technology and will be published around the world by the middle of October. So far it is the first popular science book about synthetic biology published for children in China.
Furthermore, we plan to expand the reading target of our books by writing a more professional synthetic biological book for teenagers in middle school and high school. By now, we have finished the first draft and the book is planed to be published by November.

Approaching iGEM on Malus Spectabilis Festival

Malus spectabilis is the symbol flower of Tianjin University and every Spring we hold the festival as a grand party to public. Every year when the flowers bloom, thousands of citizens visit our campus to appreciate the lovely flowers. In the meantime, it is also a good time for diverse student organization to display their extraordinary achievements to the public. We set up our stall early in the morning, exhibited the poster, played interesting games that spread knowledge of synthetic biology and did experimental performances. With adequate preparation and smart ideas, we attracted batches of people to adore our activities.
However, during the event, we found that people’s understanding of biotechnology have stayed in traditional plants and animal cells in biology books. They also complained that advanced concept of synthetic biology seems to be far from reality, which gives us a signal that synthetic biology should be more accessible and popular science by our endeavors.

Open-Up Day

We focus on building bridge between biology textbook and advanced synthetic biology, setting up a call line between teenagers and parents. In August 19th, we held an laboratory open-up event for both teenagers and parents nation-wide. About 100 people participated in the activity. In our lab, we operated experimental apparatus to them and explained how to do a well-designed experiment following certain protocol. Meanwhile, we also taught them several experiment skills and safety issues that need to pay attention on. The final part appeared to be their favorite that we shared our academic experience about studying synthetic biology and participating in iGEM competition. Our effort was deeply appreciated by every visitor.

Special Program

To give children a more vivid experience of exploring synthetic biology, we organized a TV show broadcast on Tianjin TV station. On September 23th, we invited over 20 families to our lab. After teaching them some basic knowledge of microorganism and introducing our project, each kid did a simple biology experiment with our security guard, such as observing the specimen by microscope, running the DNA electrophoresis, etc. During this happy period, bursts of laughter kept floating out of our lab and all the kids showed great curiosity about the new microorganism world. Meanwhile we discussed the picture book with their parents. They gave us much helpful advice on how to make the book more accessible for kids. After the activity, the record was programmed by the TV station and broadcast circularly.

Second Class

In China, ‘Second Class’ means a supplement to the normal class where students acquire knowledge out of textbooks. We visited many local high schools and still stay connected with a handful of biology teachers, majority of which warmly welcome us to do and explain experiments for students. We hit it off with each other as soon as we met. Worked with NKU, TUST, and OUC, we prepared a detailed schedule containing: gene manipulation technique, the concept of synthetic biology and its application in reality, introduction of iGEM project and example of our program. You can find more details about the collaboration in the collaboration.
To our great surprise, we received countless fans of synthetic biology and they showed great passion about the amazing field. They listened carefully and asked questions actively. The energetic and creative thoughts provided us valuable inspiration about our program and the picture book mentioned above. It was our pleasure to expose them to shallow biology research and we sent them the most sincere invitation to our next Open-up Day.

Volunteer Course in Tianjin SOS Children Village

In a sunny day of October 9th, we went to the Tianjin SOS Children Village, the largest international children village in China. We have reached an agreement with teachers and volunteered to have a series of synthetic biology class for the children regularly. We brought them the newly-published picture book mentioned above. The children in the village expressed huge interest in the colourful pictures and kept asking us questions about Xinye’s adventure. Through communicating with them wholeheartedly, we found that as an iGEMer it is our responsibility to not only spread knowledge to those kids, but also show them the spirit of exploring new science. Although synthetic biology is an abstruse concept for children, they could easily get it across that modern biology technology is making a huge difference to our lives and many said ‘they want to be biology scientists in the future’!