Team:HUBU-WUHAN/Public Engagement
Education and Public Engagement
1. Freshman recruitment
To make freshmen better adapt to campus life and understand the synthetic biology, we gave a speech on introduction of the iGEM competition and the basic knowledge of synthetic biology. The most interesting part is that the audiences discussed with the speaker Xiong and Wang, asking about what is synthetic biology and how it can benefit our future life. We found that most of the rookies had never known synthetic biology before the lecture, but they all showed great interests in this new subject, believing that it can help improve the environment and save resources. We are very happy to recruit more freshmen to our iGEM family.
2. Pupil lecture
The pupils are full of vigour and vitality, are in the bloom of life, like the flowers of our country. Thus, we went to Caidian district no. 6 primary school, to give the young students an interesting lecture on synthetic biology through humorous language and simple experiments. They have no idea what is a plasmid, however, everyone knows we need to protect the environment. When we told them that we could turn the waste cartons into biofuels, they all marveled at the magic of biology and said they will study synthetic biology in the future. The world of children is very innocent and lovely, brings a sense of mission responsibility to our project.
