Team:Bulgaria/MEDALAWARD
Integrated Human Practices
“The 65 SynBio Roses” campaign served as an important platform for us to be able to tell our story, but, also, receive overwhelming amounts of feedback. We chose our very publicly oriented approach in order to engage as large of an audience as possible. This helped us learn the perspectives of people that do not know much (or at all) about science and showed us the many ways others’ opinions and ideas can have an impact on your own. https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2018/d/d5/T--Bulgaria--homeroses.jpg
Improve a Previous Part or Project
Social campaigns aside, we tried and improved a previous part in order to give back to the iGEM community. https://2018.igem.org/Team:Bulgaria/IMPROVE
Special award - Kalina Education and Public Engagement
When we were kids, all three of us held immense curiosity for our surroundings, we wanted to know how things worked and what made them work.. Stemming from our own passion and experiences, we wanted to dedicate as much time and attention as we could to children as hungry for knowledge as we were. We couldn’t have been happier by the fact so many bright minds decided to join us in our “The 65 SynBio Roses” campaign. Our winner, Kalina, was promised a tour around our lab and the opportunity to draw with real bacteria instead of pen and paper, but she wanted so much more. She strived for knowledge. And we obliged. She even brought her little brother, because she “wanted him to see the beauty of science”. https://2018.igem.org/Team:Bulgaria/IntHP