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This year, we collaborated with the Baltimore BioCrew, another high school iGEM team, to create an iGEM Guide for Community Laboratories that are interesting in starting a high school iGEM team.  With the unique circumstances of being a high school team and working out of a community lab, we have had to surpass different challenges and situations that many teams may not have come across. We were also aware that many community labs around the world were interested in participating in iGEM, but were having difficulties to do so -- so by designing a guide, we hope to help these labs with some of the issues that they are facing, as they are ones that we have faced.  
 
This year, we collaborated with the Baltimore BioCrew, another high school iGEM team, to create an iGEM Guide for Community Laboratories that are interesting in starting a high school iGEM team.  With the unique circumstances of being a high school team and working out of a community lab, we have had to surpass different challenges and situations that many teams may not have come across. We were also aware that many community labs around the world were interested in participating in iGEM, but were having difficulties to do so -- so by designing a guide, we hope to help these labs with some of the issues that they are facing, as they are ones that we have faced.  
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To begin, and before we created our guide, we contacted community laboratories in many different countries to see what issues they had faced in trying to participate in iGEM. We reached out to around 29 community labs around the world, the email reading as follows:
 
To begin, and before we created our guide, we contacted community laboratories in many different countries to see what issues they had faced in trying to participate in iGEM. We reached out to around 29 community labs around the world, the email reading as follows:
 
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<li>Have you ever considered having an iGEM team? If so, what were the perceived barriers? (i.e. fundraising, finding students or mentors, etc)</li>
 
<li>Have you ever considered having an iGEM team? If so, what were the perceived barriers? (i.e. fundraising, finding students or mentors, etc)</li>
 
<li>Would a report detailing our experiences in creating and maintaining an iGEM team be useful to you?</li>
 
<li>Would a report detailing our experiences in creating and maintaining an iGEM team be useful to you?</li>
 
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We were ecstatic to hear back from 11 community labs from around the world (BosLab, BioCurious, Bricobio, ReaGent, Ronin Genetics, The Open Science Network, DIY Bio Hong Kong, Victoria Makerspace, AbroBios, BioBlaze, and Bioscope). Many of them expressed struggles with: 
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With their replies, we structured our guide to consist of 6 sections to best address some of the concerns that we had heard. These sections are:
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In each section, we outlined some of our recommendations for new teams, some background from our teams’ experiences, and other alternative ideas and solutions that we had brainstormed.  As our experience with iGEM continues, we plan on adding more sections and we are striving to encourage more community laboratories to invite local high schoolers to compete in iGEM.
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Revision as of 19:02, 14 October 2018

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iT-SB 2018 iT-SB 2017

Collaborations

iTesla-SoundBio & Baltimore BioCrew

iGEM Guide for Community Laboratories

This year, we collaborated with the Baltimore BioCrew, another high school iGEM team, to create an iGEM Guide for Community Laboratories that are interesting in starting a high school iGEM team. With the unique circumstances of being a high school team and working out of a community lab, we have had to surpass different challenges and situations that many teams may not have come across. We were also aware that many community labs around the world were interested in participating in iGEM, but were having difficulties to do so -- so by designing a guide, we hope to help these labs with some of the issues that they are facing, as they are ones that we have faced.

To begin, and before we created our guide, we contacted community laboratories in many different countries to see what issues they had faced in trying to participate in iGEM. We reached out to around 29 community labs around the world, the email reading as follows:


  1. Have you ever considered having an iGEM team? If so, what were the perceived barriers? (i.e. fundraising, finding students or mentors, etc)
  2. Would a report detailing our experiences in creating and maintaining an iGEM team be useful to you?

We were ecstatic to hear back from 11 community labs from around the world (BosLab, BioCurious, Bricobio, ReaGent, Ronin Genetics, The Open Science Network, DIY Bio Hong Kong, Victoria Makerspace, AbroBios, BioBlaze, and Bioscope). Many of them expressed struggles with:


  • “Recruiting and finding high commitment amongst members”
  • “Not knowing how [to] fundraise or raise money for a team”
  • “Organizing a team”
  • “Biology background knowledge”

With their replies, we structured our guide to consist of 6 sections to best address some of the concerns that we had heard. These sections are:


  1. Recruiting
  2. Communication & Tools
  3. Leadership
  4. Timeline/Scheduling
  5. Protocols & Lab Notebooks
  6. Fundraising

In each section, we outlined some of our recommendations for new teams, some background from our teams’ experiences, and other alternative ideas and solutions that we had brainstormed. As our experience with iGEM continues, we plan on adding more sections and we are striving to encourage more community laboratories to invite local high schoolers to compete in iGEM.


iTesla-SoundBio, Tacoma RAINMakers, & Team Washington