Revision as of 01:22, 1 November 2017

Human Practices

Why Fake Alcohol?

As a team, something that we realized was that most college students our age did not know how dangerous fake alcohol could actually be. We saw this as a massive problem because the minimum age for drinking in China is 18, which means that most college students would be able to drink. This then leads to students our age most likely being amongst those individuals who would be most affected by this, since fake alcohol usually tends to be cheaper and would sound like an attractive offer to college students who were trying to be financially responsible.Thus, we took it upon ourselves to dedicate some time to educating some of our peers at NYU Shanghai about the dangers of fake alcohol and how to be smart when it comes to drinking.

Community Outreach

Alcohol Awareness Week : May 15th- May 19th, 2017

We set up a station on campus at NYU Shanghai. Our main aims were to:

Talk to students about fake alcohol and its dangers and explain to them the science behind it.
Explain to students what iGEM was and what we, as an iGEM team, wanted to do about this situation.
Hand out “Drink Smart” stickers to get people more interested and involved.

At the end of the 5 days, we had spoken to and educated at least one third of NYU Shanghai’s population about fake alcohol, its dangers, and about our project.

DNA Visualization Workshop: June 23rd, 2017

Another activity we set out to do was to a DNA visualization workshop for students at NYU Shanghai. During the summer term we gathered a group of students which consisted mainly of non-STEM majors and gave them an introduction to DNA, what it was and other fun facts about it. Afterwards we lead an experiment where we showed them how to extract DNA from bananas, peaches and kiwis and actually ‘see’ the DNA.

@@ Line 3: / Line 3: @@
 <html><head><meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="content-type"><style type="text/css">@import url('https://themes.googleusercontent.com/fonts/css?kit=eG0-ekeKw0_uZjspFRIF9ypVvv0rOpfSTbNTkKHMoz9lIqvmcuN3fYAxTuhtxBymqGRbQCh9WqgMwQVbFTS4IQ');ul.lst-kix_y5p3wyvuoje8-2{list-style-type:none}ul.lst-kix_y5p3wyvuoje8-1{list-style-type:none}ul.lst-kix_y5p3wyvuoje8-0{list-style-type:none}ul.lst-kix_9lhur1dhg1yk-5{list-style-type:none}ul.lst-kix_yfaj4patnh87-7{list-style-type:none}ul.lst-kix_9lhur1dhg1yk-4{list-style-type:none}ul.lst-kix_yfaj4patnh87-8{list-style-type:none}ul.lst-kix_9lhur1dhg1yk-3{list-style-type:none}ul.lst-kix_9lhur1dhg1yk-2{list-style-type:none}ul.lst-kix_yfaj4patnh87-3{list-style-type:none}ul.lst-kix_9lhur1dhg1yk-8{list-style-type:none}ul.lst-kix_yfaj4patnh87-4{list-style-type:none}ul.lst-kix_9lhur1dhg1yk-7{list-style-type:none}ul.lst-kix_yfaj4patnh87-5{list-style-type:none}ul.lst-kix_9lhur1dhg1yk-6{list-style-type:none}ul.lst-kix_yfaj4patnh87-6{list-style-type:none}ul.lst-kix_y5p3wyvuoje8-6{list-style-type:none}ul.lst-kix_y5p3wyvuoje8-5{list-style-type:none}ul.lst-kix_y5p3wyvuoje8-4{list-style-type:none}ul.lst-kix_y5p3wyvuoje8-3{list-style-type:none}ul.lst-kix_y5p3wyvuoje8-8{list-style-type:none}ul.lst-kix_y5p3wyvuoje8-7{list-style-type:none}.lst-kix_yfaj4patnh87-0>li:before{content:"\0025cf  "}.lst-kix_9lhur1dhg1yk-0>li:before{content:"\0025cf  "}.lst-kix_9lhur1dhg1yk-1>li:before{content:"\0025cb  "}.lst-kix_9lhur1dhg1yk-2>li:before{content:"\0025a0  "}.lst-kix_yfaj4patnh87-2>li:before{content:"\0025a0  "}.lst-kix_yfaj4patnh87-3>li:before{content:"\0025cf  "}.lst-kix_y5p3wyvuoje8-1>li:before{content:"\0025cb  "}.lst-kix_9lhur1dhg1yk-4>li:before{content:"\0025cb  "}.lst-kix_yfaj4patnh87-4>li:before{content:"\0025cb  "}.lst-kix_9lhur1dhg1yk-3>li:before{content:"\0025cf  "}.lst-kix_9lhur1dhg1yk-5>li:before{content:"\0025a0  "}.lst-kix_y5p3wyvuoje8-0>li:before{content:"\0025cf  "}.lst-kix_yfaj4patnh87-5>li:before{content:"\0025a0  "}.lst-kix_yfaj4patnh87-1>li:before{content:"\0025cb  "}.lst-kix_9lhur1dhg1yk-8>li:before{content:"\0025a0  "}.lst-kix_yfaj4patnh87-8>li:before{content:"\0025a0  "}.lst-kix_9lhur1dhg1yk-7>li:before{content:"\0025cb  "}.lst-kix_9lhur1dhg1yk-6>li:before{content:"\0025cf  "}.lst-kix_yfaj4patnh87-6>li:before{content:"\0025cf  "}.lst-kix_yfaj4patnh87-7>li:before{content:"\0025cb  "}.lst-kix_y5p3wyvuoje8-2>li:before{content:"\0025a0  "}.lst-kix_y5p3wyvuoje8-3>li:before{content:"\0025cf  "}.lst-kix_y5p3wyvuoje8-4>li:before{content:"\0025cb  "}.lst-kix_y5p3wyvuoje8-5>li:before{content:"\0025a0  "}.lst-kix_y5p3wyvuoje8-8>li:before{content:"\0025a0  "}ul.lst-kix_yfaj4patnh87-0{list-style-type:none}ul.lst-kix_yfaj4patnh87-1{list-style-type:none}ul.lst-kix_yfaj4patnh87-2{list-style-type:none}ul.lst-kix_9lhur1dhg1yk-1{list-style-type:none}.lst-kix_y5p3wyvuoje8-6>li:before{content:"\0025cf  "}ul.lst-kix_9lhur1dhg1yk-0{list-style-type:none}.lst-kix_y5p3wyvuoje8-7>li:before{content:"\0025cb  "}ol{margin:0;padding:0}table td,table th{padding:0}.c0{margin-left:36pt;padding-top:0pt;padding-left:0pt;padding-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left}.c6{color:#674ea7;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:42pt;font-family:"Oswald";font-style:normal}.c2{color:#674ea7;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:18pt;font-family:"Oswald";font-style:normal}.c5{color:#351c75;font-weight:700;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:24pt;font-family:"Droid Serif";font-style:normal}.c1{padding-top:0pt;padding-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.15;text-align:left;height:11pt}.c15{padding-top:0pt;padding-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.5;text-align:center}.c10{padding-top:0pt;padding-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.5;text-align:left}.c13{padding-top:0pt;padding-bottom:10pt;line-height:1.0;text-align:center}.c16{color:#674ea7;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:normal}.c4{color:#000000;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:normal}.c12{padding-top:0pt;padding-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.15;text-align:center}.c11{padding-top:0pt;padding-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.15;text-align:left}.c9{font-weight:400;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"}.c14{font-weight:400;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Pacifico"}.c7{font-weight:400;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Droid Serif"}.c3{font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-weight:400}.c19{background-color:#ffffff;max-width:451.3pt;padding:72pt 72pt 72pt 72pt}.c21{padding:0;margin:0}.c17{font-weight:400;font-family:"Times New Roman"}.c8{orphans:2;widows:2}.c20{font-style:italic}.c18{vertical-align:super}.title{padding-top:0pt;color:#674ea7;font-size:42pt;padding-bottom:10pt;font-family:"Oswald";line-height:1.0;text-align:center}.subtitle{padding-top:0pt;color:#000000;font-size:13pt;padding-bottom:0pt;font-family:"Droid Serif";line-height:1.0;font-style:italic;text-align:center}li{color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Droid Serif"}p{margin:0;color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Droid Serif"}h1{padding-top:0pt;color:#351c75;font-weight:700;font-size:18pt;padding-bottom:0pt;font-family:"Droid Serif";line-height:1.5;text-align:center}h2{padding-top:0pt;color:#674ea7;font-size:18pt;padding-bottom:0pt;font-family:"Oswald";line-height:1.5;text-align:left}h3{padding-top:0pt;color:#351c75;font-weight:700;font-size:14pt;padding-bottom:0pt;font-family:"Droid Serif";line-height:1.5;text-align:left}h4{padding-top:0pt;color:#20124d;font-size:14pt;padding-bottom:0pt;font-family:"Oswald";line-height:1.5;text-align:left}h5{padding-top:0pt;color:#434343;font-size:13pt;padding-bottom:0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";line-height:1.15;page-break-after:avoid;text-align:left}h6{padding-top:8pt;color:#666666;font-size:11pt;padding-bottom:0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";line-height:1.15;page-break-after:avoid;font-style:italic;text-align:left}</style></head><body class="c19"><p class="c8 c13 title" id="h.h5frvijmff4a"><span class="c6">Human Practices</span></p><h2 class="c10" id="h.k46wl8k4mce"><span class="c2">Why Fake Alcohol?</span></h2><p class="c11 c8"><span class="c17">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="c4 c3">As a team, something that we realized was that most college students our age did not know how dangerous fake alcohol could actually be. We saw this as a massive problem because the minimum age for drinking in China is 18, which means that most college students would be able to drink. This then leads to students our age most likely being amongst those individuals who would be most affected by this, since fake alcohol usually tends to be cheaper and would sound like an attractive offer to college students who were trying to be financially responsible.Thus, we took it upon ourselves to dedicate some time to educating some of our peers at NYU Shanghai about the dangers of fake alcohol and how to be smart when it comes to drinking. </span></p><p class="c1 c8"><span class="c4 c14"></span></p><h1 class="c8 c15" id="h.441ohm4uj9y"><span class="c5">Community Outreach</span></h1><h2 class="c8 c10" id="h.fwumb0eh56b"><span>Alcohol Awareness Week : May 15</span><span class="c18">th</span><span>- May 19</span><span class="c18">th</span><span>, 2017</span></h2><p class="c8 c12"><span style="overflow: hidden; display: inline-block; margin: 0.00px 0.00px; border: 0.00px solid #000000; transform: rotate(0.00rad) translateZ(0px); -webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad) translateZ(0px); width: 496.00px; height: 247.00px;"><img alt="" src="images/image1.png" style="width: 496.00px; height: 372.00px; margin-left: 0.00px; margin-top: -62.00px; transform: rotate(0.00rad) translateZ(0px); -webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad) translateZ(0px);" title=""></span></p><p class="c8 c11"><span class="c4 c3">We set up a station on campus at NYU Shanghai. Our main aims were to:</span></p><ul class="c21 lst-kix_yfaj4patnh87-0 start"><li class="c0"><span class="c4 c3">Talk to students about fake alcohol and its dangers and explain to them the science behind it.</span></li><li class="c0"><span class="c4 c3">Explain to students what iGEM was and what we, as an iGEM team, wanted to do about this situation. </span></li><li class="c0"><span class="c3">Hand out &ldquo;</span><span class="c3 c20">Drink Smart</span><span class="c3 c4">&rdquo; stickers to get people more interested and involved. </span></li></ul><p class="c12 c8"><span class="c4 c3">At the end of the 5 days, we had spoken to and educated at least one third of NYU Shanghai&rsquo;s population about fake alcohol, its dangers, and about our project. &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></p><p class="c1 c8"><span class="c4 c3"></span></p><h2 class="c10 c8" id="h.eqqnwl7hbzc0"><span>DNA Visualization Workshop: June 23</span><span class="c18">rd</span><span class="c2">, 2017</span></h2><p class="c11"><span style="overflow: hidden; display: inline-block; margin: 0.00px 0.00px; border: 0.00px solid #000000; transform: rotate(0.00rad) translateZ(0px); -webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad) translateZ(0px); width: 602.00px; height: 401.33px;"><img alt="" src="images/image3.png" style="width: 602.00px; height: 401.33px; margin-left: 0.00px; margin-top: 0.00px; transform: rotate(0.00rad) translateZ(0px); -webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad) translateZ(0px);" title=""></span></p><p class="c11 c8"><span class="c3">Another activity we set out to do was to a DNA visualization workshop for students at NYU Shanghai.</span><span class="c4 c9">&nbsp;During the summer term we gathered a group of students which consisted mainly of non-STEM majors and gave them an introduction to DNA, what it was and other fun facts about it. Afterwards we lead an experiment where we showed them how to extract DNA from bananas, peaches and kiwis and actually &lsquo;see&rsquo; the DNA. &nbsp;</span><span style="overflow: hidden; display: inline-block; margin: 0.00px 0.00px; border: 0.00px solid #000000; transform: rotate(0.00rad) translateZ(0px); -webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad) translateZ(0px); width: 783.49px; height: 88.50px;"><img alt="" src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2017/e/e0/NYUSH17-bottleborder.png" style="width: 783.49px; height: 88.50px; margin-left: 0.00px; margin-top: 0.00px; transform: rotate(0.00rad) translateZ(0px); -webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad) translateZ(0px);" title=""></span></p><p class="c1 c8"><span class="c4 c9"></span></p><p class="c1"><span class="c4 c7"></span></p></body></html>
-<h1>Silver Medal Human Practices</h1>
-<p>iGEM teams are leading in the area of Human Practices because they conduct their projects within a social/environmental context, to better understand issues that might influence the design and use of their technologies.</p>
-<p>Teams work with students and advisors from the humanities and social sciences to explore topics concerning ethical, legal, social, economic, safety or security issues related to their work. Consideration of these Human Practices is crucial for building safe and sustainable projects that serve the public interest. </p>
-<p>For more information, please see the <a href="https://2017.igem.org/Competition/Human_Practices">Human Practices page</a>.</p>
-</div>
-<div class="clear"></div>
-<div class="column half_size">
-<h3>Silver Medal Criterion #3</h3>
-<p>Convince the judges you have thought carefully and creatively about whether your work is safe, responsible and good for the world. You could accomplish this through engaging with your local, national and/or international communities or other approaches. Please note that standard surveys will not fulfill this criteria.</p>
-</div>
-<div class="column half_size">
-<h5>Some Human Practices topic areas </h5>
-<ul>
-<li>Philosophy</li>
-<li>Public Engagement / Dialogue</li>
-<li>Education</li>
-<li>Product Design</li>
-<li>Scale-Up and Deployment Issues</li>
-<li>Environmental Impact</li>
-<li>Ethics</li>
-<li>Safety</li>
-<li>Security</li>
-<li>Public Policy</li>
-<li>Law and Regulation</li>
-<li>Risk Assessment</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-<div class="column half_size">
-<h5>What should we write about on this page?</h5>
-<p>On this page, you should write about the Human Practices topics you considered in your project, and document any special activities you did (such as visiting experts, talking to lawmakers, or doing public engagement). This should include all of the work done for the Silver Medal Criterion #3. Details for your Gold medal work and/or work for the two Human Practices special prizes should be put on those specified pages.</p>
-</div>
-<div class="column half_size">
-<h5>Inspiration</h5>
-<p>Read what other teams have done:</p>
-<ul>
-<li><a href="https://2014.igem.org/Team:Dundee/policypractice/experts">2014 Dundee </a></li>
-<li><a href="https://2014.igem.org/Team:UC_Davis/Policy_Practices_Overview">2014 UC Davis </a></li>
-<li><a href="https://2013.igem.org/Team:Manchester/HumanPractices">2013 Manchester </a></li>
-<li><a href="https://2013.igem.org/Team:Cornell/outreach">2013 Cornell </a></li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-</html>

Difference between revisions of "Team:NYU Shanghai/HP/Silver"

Revision as of 01:22, 1 November 2017

Why Fake Alcohol?

Community Outreach

Alcohol Awareness Week : May 15th- May 19th, 2017

DNA Visualization Workshop: June 23rd, 2017