Team:Worldshaper-XSHS/Public Engagement
Public Engagement
Wordshaper-XSHS has also made great efforts in education and the public.
On August 4, 2019, worldshaper-XSHS organized a public science park in Hangzhou low carbon Museum. We publicized some basic knowledge of synthetic biology and the source and purpose of our topic to the public through playing games.
On August 8, 2019, Worldshaper-XSHS was invited to give a lecture on the source of our project, specific experimental methods and our purpose to a summer camp of synthetic biology for senior high school students in the biological experiment center of Zhejiang University.
In addition, we have been popularizing the knowledge of synthetic biology and the latest trend of our team in the form of Wechat public account. In this process, we have also benefited a lot. We have been familiar with our subject over and over again and listened to the opinions of the masses, so as to improve our project.
（Low Carbon Museum）
（Lecture For Summer Camp）
（Lecture For Summer Camp）
Our team continues to operate our team's wechat public account. After two years of accumulation, we have nearly thousands of fans. Considering that our public account has a certain audience and is easy to spread and produce, the online public education system continues to present our wechat account on platform this year.
Through the public account, we mainly published the activities being carried out by the team, the progress of our project, and articles about the treatment of printing and dyeing wastewater, azo dyes, synthetic biology, etc. (See Fig.18) As the main object is the masses with general education level, its content follows the principle of easy to understand. In this way, we let the public know what we are doing and why we should do so to get more public support for our project.
In order to carry out project research, project implementation and public science popularization activities, we decided to raise funds from the public. Based on our understanding of our project, the public has donated more than $2000 to us through the online crowdfunding platform (see Fig. 19) as well as directly personal donation to express their support for our work. The public participated in our project in this way and encouraged us to devote more enthusiasm to our work.
