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Education and Public Engagement

Biology Festival

Biology Festival is a traditional public educational festival of School of Life Science, SYSU. SYSU has a quite open campus, so both students and the local communities can join this carnival. This year, the carnival of Biological Festival was held on April 16th, and our team successfully applied to take part in this project. Together with SYSU-Software, we invited iGEM teams from South China University of Technology and South China Agricultural University to introduce Synthetic Biology, or in a wider sense, Biology, to the public. We aimed at providing the local communities with an opportunity of getting their hands on science-related activities and know more about Biology. So, we designed some interesting games about Synthetic Biology and prepared snacks for those who won. Each team printed their own poster to present their projects, and we shared a big poster that introducing Synthetic Biology. Our team members organized the games and introduced our project. We took this job, in turn, to make sure that visitors would be well served whenever they came. During the whole day, we received many types of visitor, including students majored in Life Science, or in other aspects, elementary school students and their parents, middle school students and even retired medical professors. Different types of visitors have a different focus of attention. Our youngest visitors were interested in the games and snacks. For them, we explained several basic biological definitions for them, then provided them pencils and paper and let them draw their own comprehensions, then they would exchange their paper and gassed what their partner was drawing. We believe it is of vital importance to impart science knowledge to young children. Middle school students started to be curious about what is Synthetic Biology, so we tried our best to explain those abstract concepts with easy-understanding vocabularies and told them how can Synthetic Biology change our life. College students asked questions about how we were planning to implement our project, and students majored in Life Science would show more interests in technical details. Our eldest visitor, a retired professor, seemed very glad to see young people participating in international academic competitions like iGEM. He showed strong interests in our project, after consulting some technical details, he started to share his working experience of the past decades, which was very instructive for us.

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