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Revision as of 15:44, 16 September 2019

Education and Engagement

Science is not reserved for universities and the deeper part of most businesses. So we brought it to the people, the young people. In the hopes that maybe a middle schooler or a high school student would find it interesting and want to pursue science. (This text needs to be written better)

Science Expo

The science expo was held the 28th, 29th, and 30th of April and is part of the Danish “Unge Forskere” competition where student from high school creates and present their own research project. We were represented by a stand with pipettes, microbe plushies, and other lab things, we were also showing of projects from previous years and concepts from this year’s project. The stand was visited by a lot of different audiences mostly wanting to try using the pipettes and the microscope, and of course hold and cuddle our giant microbe plushies. This was mainly due to the fact that our audience, mainly consisted of elementary school kids and their teachers. We also had some really nice and informative talks on what microorganisms are and that they can be used for.
This talk was facilitated by us having the plushies since most kids found them really cute.

UNF Biotech Camp

All of the Danish iGEM teams (SDU, KU, and us), were invited to come and do a talk on our projects at the UNF biotech camp Thursday the 27th of Juli. UNF biotech camp is a camp for ambitious high school students who spend a week of their summer break having university level teaching in biotechnology. All three teams from Denmark were represented and we all made a presentation of 25 minutes. The participants were really excited about the three projects and had a lot of questions, many of them being “how can I get to do this”. This was a great way to get the young participants hyped on synthetic biology, and a great way for them to get a grasp of all the possibilities that synthetic biology has.
Last but not least this was good practice for us in practicing the communication part of our project and how to shape the presentation in a way so that it is understandable for everyone.