Meetups NCHU-Taichung, NCTU-Formosa, NTHU-Taiwan, NTHU-Formosa, Baltimore_BioCrew, CCU-Taiwan,
Date: through iGEM 2018 season
Location: Mingdao High School or National Chiao Tung University
Sharing: motivation, iGEM experience, etc.
Team: NCHU-Taichung
Date: Apr. 3, 2018
Location: Mingdao High School
Why: To exchange concerns and questions relating to each of our project
How: Give presentation and discuss via Q&A
What:
We talked about the idea of GE mosquitoes and the aplication in blood testing. And they shared their project concerning clean environmental pollutants by GE plants. After a brief understanding of both of our project, we shared our future plans, difficulties and suggestions in a mutual way. We all knew that promoting GMO to the public is not easy and limited by law regulation. Although there’s still many controversial problem, we are encouraged by several GE crops that are widely available. And we discussed these problems in Taiwan. Before NCHU left Mingdao, they visited our Biolab and amazed at what we can do as a high school students and in the campus of a high school.
Reflection:
We all learned a lot from this meeting. For instance, their human practice is made up of integrated human practice and education. One is related to experiment and the other promotes social education. Also, the attributions of their team is organized. Some of them are in charge of botany, others are in charge of microbiology, and the others are responsible for human practices. All of them have a clear vision of what they are doing. That’s what we need to learn from them.