Spreading and Learning
In the last year, our group became very excited about one idea: how synthetic biology could change the lives of our community? From the start, our goal was to impact people's lives and the way they perceive the benefits of science for society. But how could a bunch of college students achieve this? We didn't know yet. We had to put science aside and start from scratch, learning how to approach people, institutions, companies and the press - newspapers, and radio stations.
One of the best ways to impact our community is through education. This led us from middle school to college, teaching young kids to adults about the beauty of this science and its real-world applications. Aside from lectures, we reached the press so we could spread our knowledge about synbio and its wonders to the general public.
Also, during the development of our human practices, we noticed that people still have lots of concern when the subject is OGMs. This made us think about the importance of spreading the synthetic biology word to the community, so we intensified our engagement with them through more speeches and sharing more of our daily in lab on our social media. You can see more pictures of our work in the group's gallery.