Human Practices

Outreach work

Our team contacted businesses and institutions involved in Mars expeditions, agriculture in rough conditions, perchlorate contamination, as well as environmental contamination in general. We have also been in contact with Astronaut Shawna Pandya, however, due to her busy schedule, we were unable to interview her.

Our team has communicated with several other teams, such as UAlberta, iGEM Gifu, iGEM Nagahama, and iGEM TEC CEM. Thank you for your collaboration and suggestions! We are also extremely thankful for the help and support we received from our mentor team, UAlberta, in our InterLab study. We would not be where we are today without their advice and aid.

Presentation-wise, we have presented at several elementary schools. The main purpose of these presentations was to educate kids about synthetic biology at an early age. We made a 15-minute, condensed and simplified overview of our project, including the way our bioreactor worked and what purposes our project had. As a team led by students, we believe fostering youth interest in STEM should be a key pillar to one’s goals. We hope that our efforts as a student-driven research team will show that passion in the STEM fields will push for innovation in our world.

In terms of fundraising, we successfully conducted two major fundraising events, with one of them being a bottle drive and the other being Summer SYNBIO. Our second event was a three-hour occasion with presentations, science workshops, and a silent auction. In order to hold the auction, we asked local businesses for gift cards and promo items, and despite this having been our first time to plan a silent auction, we managed to get in contact with over 50 local businesses. Thanks to the generosity of Edmontonians, we were able to hold an educative and fun event.

Emily Hicks, Julie Legault, Justin Pahara, Robert Mayall, Anam Rizvi, Patrick Wu for presentation feedback and general project guidance at the geekStarter Jamboree hosted by geekStarter.

Cesar Rodriguez, David Lloyd, Kirsten Jacobsen, Swati Carr, and Zach Wiltshire for presentation feedback and project guidance at the aGEM 2017 Competition & Workshop hosted by GeekStarter.

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