Team:Rice/Medal

Bronze	Register and Attend		Deliverables		Attributions		Inspiration and Description		Characterization
	Register for iGEM, have a great summer, and attend the Giant Jamboree.		Our project has been documented on our wiki and we look forward to presenting our team poster and presentation at the Giant Jamboree. Our judging form has been submitted. Our parts pages are completed.		Please refer to our attributions, where we list the contributions of those who have made Rice iGEM possible.		Visit our Project Description page to see how and why we chose our iGEM project, and how we achieved our goals.		We added quantitative experimental characterization data to the following parts: BBa_K115001, BBa_K115003, BBa_K115017.
Silver	Validated Part / Contribution			Collaboration			Human Practices
	We created new RNA thermometers and characterized these basic parts on their respective Part Main Pages. The parts we submitted on the Judging Form are BBa_K3247000, BBa_K3247001, BBa_K3247003.			We both contributed and benefited from collaborations with local and international iGEM teams.			We engaged and educated others about our specific project and wider issues in synthetic biology.
Gold	Integrated Human Practices			Improve a Previous Part or Project			Model Your Project
	We engaged with experts and the community; educated others about synthetic biology and our project; and investigated our project’s economic, agricultural, and environmental impacts in an Impact Report. These efforts along with our Meta-analysis can be seen here.			We have created a new RNA thermometer, BBa_K3247005, that is a functional improvement of an existing RNA thermometer, BBa_K115002 and we performed RNA thermometer fluorescence time course measurements to demonstrate this improvement.			Our project’s RNA thermometer design was based on insight we gained from modeling, in which the software NuPack was used to design RNA thermometers by finding optimal candidates using a genetic algorithm.