Team:CCA San Diego/medal criteria

Medal Criteria

Bronze

Silver
• Validated Parts: Fluorene Degrading Combinations BBa_K2491013 BBa_K2491025 BBa_K2491026 Phenanthrene Degrading Combinations BBa_K2491027 BBa_K2491028 BBa_K2491029
• Collaboration: We collaborated with 4 different teams, detailed information and pictures can be found under our collaboration tab, but we meet the requirements of seeking mentors across the world, from Nebraska to Kazakhstan. With each collaboration, we sought to find ways to connect our project ideas, and to find parallels between how we could improve our projects to connect them to the community and to human practices.
• Human Practices: We made sure our project made a significant impact on the community as a whole, with a variety of stem days, outreach activities, and our very own iGEM summer camp. We introduced the idea of synthetic biology into the curriculum of local elementary schools and went to a variety of meetings with industry professionals, from BP, Exxon, Synthetic Genomics, and even a representative from Argonne National Laboratories. We used our project as a catalyst for increasing awareness of the nuances of biological research, and we made sure we talked to experts in the field to ensure our project was viable and potentially implementable.