Last year in an effort to expand the infrastructure of sharing and building on past projects in the human practices aspect of iGEM the William & Mary team created the outreach database. The database is a searchable registry which now contains approximately 2,200 entries from gold medal iGEM teams. You can see how the database was originally created here. The hope is that iGEM teams will utilize the database by improving upon past projects rather than spending time planning and troubleshooting new programs. This year, we wanted to improve on this database and help teams learn to use it. Like any database, our outreach database is only helpful if teams know how to use the search features and have an idea of what they are looking for. To help teams use the database more effectively we created an outreach planning guide.