Team:WashU StLouis/Engagement

Public Engagement, Education, and Outreach

Pre-Engineering Institute BioBuilder Activity

Throughout the Summer, the Washington University in St. Louis School of Engineering and Applied Science hosts a Pre-Engineering Institute for high school students to experience the various disciplines of engineering. To teach them about chemical engineering, we presented on the field of synthetic biology and led them in the BioBuilder iTune activity.

BioBuilder Professional Development Workshop at Monsanto

On July 20th, we went to Monsanto's Chesterfield campus to speak to local high school teachers and administrators about our involvement in iGEM and what we love about the program. We also presented on our project to give them an example of an iGEM project and synthetic biology research. The high school teachers were interested in starting iGEM teams at their own high schools and wanted to learn more how our team operates.