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In Mexico:

Only 21.5% of the population has a good understanding regarding scientific studies.
70% believe antibiotics are used in the treatment of viral and bacterial diseases.

Source: CONACYT-INEGI, Encuesta sobre la Percepción Pública de la Ciencia y la Tecnología (ENPECYT), 2017

With that in mind, we took on the huge responsibility of creating spaces where we could establish a public dialogue about synthetic biology, providing opportunities to discuss the science behind synthetic biology and spark scientific curiosity in the general public.

We believe the diffusion and understanding of science is a huge area of opportunity in our country, which is why we put a lot of hard work into the Public and Education Engagement component of our project, accomplishing an outstanding reach of over 250,000 people through different activities, such as iGEM National Congress of Science, After iGEM, iGEM National Education Tour, Workshops, a youtube collaboration with Curiosamente, articles in magazines of national reach, three presentations in science conferences, two iGEM meetups, and a Science Seminar, just to name a few examples.

National Congress of Sciences 2018

Dates: September 14 & 15, 2018
General description
The National Congress of Science was the biggest and most important event organized by Tec Monterrey 2018 Team to interact directly with people with scientific affinities, it reached the participation of over 200 undergraduate and graduate students who came from 18 different states of México to our university: Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Monterrey.
The National Congress of Science gave students the opportunity to learn about topics such as: chemistry, nanotechnology, biotechnology, nanomedicine, synthetic biology, and ecology.
Objectives:

To disseminate science among Mexican undergraduate and graduate students to encourage, both their personal development and the development of our country through science.
To have the opportunity to interact with the scientific community of all around our country, for understanding different points of view and perspectives about the present and future of Mexican research.
To gain a wider network of all the dispersed people with research related affiliations and having the opportunity of connecting points for the creation and development of further projects.

General Content:

12 conferences from experts of the fields: Biology, Chemistry, Nanomedicine and Sustainable Development.
1 Discussion Panel about the iGEM competition.
6 workshops where students experienced with chemical and biological concepts in the laboratory.
After iGEM (Networking Event).

After iGEM

Date: September 15th, 2018
After iGEM was an extension to our National Congress of Science. The event consisted on a networking session with the participation of iGEM Ambassador Camilo Chávez, iGEM Instructor Heber Torres, ex-iGEMers, iGEM judge Carolina Elizondo, Scintia co-founder Minerva Castellanos, ETH Zurich graduate Mercedes Vázquez, Student Association of Genomic Biotechnology (AsEBioGen) and an attendance of approximately 50 undergraduate and graduate students from STEM majors.
We aimed to spark interest in biotechnology and synthetic biology projects by conducting a panel of discussion and a networking event with iGEM alumni.
AfteriGEM opened up as a space where attendees had the opportunity to interact with each other and create bonds between projects and teams. During the event, the iGEM community at Tecnológico de Monterrey helped and assessed a group of students on creating their own iGEM team at their campus in Saltillo, San Nicolás de los Garza.

National Educational Tour 2018

Dates: April-September 2018
Education in our country is often seen as a privilege rather than a right and we wanted to created something that would contribute to change that, that's how the iGEM National Educational Tour 2018 was born. We didn't want what happened in the lab to stay in the lab.
Most of us coming from rural towns and knowing first-hand what it is like to not have a lot of opportunities for personal and academic development, we felt the responsibility to share the knowledge we were acquiring with as many students as possible all around our country.
We visited five states and imparted conferences and workshops for high school and undergraduate students.

Veracruz

Michoacán

Jalisco

Chihuahua

Nuevo León I

Nuevo León II

Institution:
COBAEV
State:
Veracruz
Activity:
Synthetic Biology Workshop

Institution:
CEJA
State:
Michoacán
Activity:
Conferences

Institution:
Tec de Monterrey
State:
Jalisco
Activity:
Conference

Institution:
Tec de Monterrey
State:
Chihuahua
Activity:
Networking sessions

Institution:
Tec de Monterrey
State:
Nuevo León
Activity:
Open Lab to general public

Institution:
Instituto Vicente Suárez
State:
Nuevo León
Activity:
Conference

Workshops

Mathematical modeling of genetic circuits

With the help of CONACYT, we brought Jesús Siller, Oxford Ph.D. candidate, to our Campus, where he imparted a two session workshop about mathematical modeling of genetic circuits to a selected group of undergraduate students from Tec de Monterrey, UANL and UDEM.

Petri dish art

As a team, we imparted a petri dish art workshop were undergraduate and high school students created their own artwork after having a theoretical session of synthetic biology.

Science Seminar

Dates: September 14 & 15, 2018
In collaboration with SACI (Science and Engineering Alumni Society) from Tec de Monterrey we created Seminar of Science, a tuition free course for regional universities of Nuevo León as: Tecnológico de Monterrey, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León (Schools of Chemistry, Biology and Physics) and Universidad de Monterrey, where experts in different science fields from around the world shared with the student community their experience and trayectory.
We had an attendance of over 130 people per session , all from different majors such as: B. S. Biotechnology Engineering, B. S. Physics, B. S. Chemistry and Nanotechnology Engineering, B.S. Food Industry Engineering, B.S. Sustainable Development Engineering, B.S. Mechanical Engineering with minor in Industrial Engineering, B.S. Mechanical Engineering with minor in Environmental Engineering, B.S. Chemical Engineering with minor in Industrial Engineering, B.S. Innovation and Development Engineering.
Through these 10 sessions, we were able to discuss science while creating a network between researchers and students pursuing research opportunities.

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