• Achievement: a public education envolving 5 igem teams and more than 1000 participants!
“Be a world shaper!” Inciting interests of young child to be future world shaper is a core mission of our education part in Human Practice. Every year ZJU-iGEM holds Techfest in Zhejiang Technology and Science museum since 2015. Particularly in this year, we invited other two undergraduate iGEM teams, and ZJUT, JNU, ASTWS-China, HFLS_ZhejiangUnited and Worldshaper-XSHS to co-organize this years’ Techfest. Speeches about what’s synthetic biology and what our project do were given to the participants.
We always believe education should be directly applied on students in each age group, including from kids in primary school to youth in collage. Always, popularization of science activity is considered as the bridge to link the profound science and the public together. We designed several minigames such as Candy DNA Model Splicing, Ecological Bottle Designing, Card Game on How to Splice Genetic Circuit Correctly.
Kids had shown great interests in our minigames and we took this advantage to advertise what is modern biology. Children were enjoying our well-designed minigames and we were really happy that public showed such great enthusiasm on biology. In order to make our activity more impressive and more in-depth, we designed 100 total simple questions related with synthetic biology after kids having fun with our minigames. We were so delighted!
