Literature Workshop
To offer students of natural sciences related degree programs a more manifold proposal to establish their scientific knowledge and lab experience aside from their daily university routine, we designed and planned a biotech quiz show which will be arranged as a social event at the end of the year.
This competition is designed for several teams with three to five members. These teams compete against each other in three categories, with games like “refill pipette tip boxes”, “estimate colonies on a plate”, “assemble a bioreactor” and a “pipetting challenges”. The teams collect points in each game to win and in the end, there will be an award ceremony.
We organized the biotech quiz show together with the btS Bielefeld, a non-profit and independent student initiative, seeing themselves as a go-between for students, universities and companies related to life sciences [https://bts-ev.de/bts/]. To discuss the realization of our event we met with the btS on 31st of August, strengthening the cooperation of the iGEM team and the btS.
Literature Workshop
The quiz is addressed to students in the 2nd and 3rd semester of biotechnology and molecular biology. Furthermore, we offer this game during the “introductory week” for the freshmen of the life sciences fields.
We are sure that the idea of cooperating with other university related organizations to further the interaction within the campus inspires others to follow our concept regarding the communication. We wish all future participants of our biotech quiz show great fun and good luck!
You can find the full version of our presentation below. Feel free to use this as inspiration for your own life sciences social event:
