Team:UrbanTundra Edmonton/OurStory

Our Story

Urban Tundra | Intelligent Innovation

Our Story

Experience our Journey

  • Boston November 2016
    We have wrapped up the 2016 iGEM season with three awards: Best Wiki, Best Presentation, and Best Poster! Our research is based upon making Mars breathable.
  • Problems January 2017
    Issues arise... We need a new team, as those who were previously on the 2016 UrbanTundra team are now on the UAlberta iGEM team. We are beginning to interview students from across Edmonton.
  • Recruitment April 2017
    A new team has been made, and we are ready to go! Our team is now composed of three high schools: Archbishop MacDonald, Harry Ainlay, and Old Scona Academic
  • NDC Jamboree June 2017
    Friendship! This is our first excursion as a team! We bonded as a group, and this experience has allowed us to recognize some issues with our presentation skills, our organization, and our project itself. We also learned more about one another during a midnight meeting and a Pho outing! Everyone is super excited and cannot wait for everything that is to come!
  • Media and Engineering Mayhem! July 2017
    This month of July is filled with huge progress from two sections of our team: our outreach section with their fundraising and our engineering section with their hydroponics! We came out with a new segment to introduce our team members, called #HumansofUrbanTundra for our social media handles on Twitter , Instagram, and Facebook . Our media team's goal has also been established: create a bridge between the public and our team. Meanwhile, the engineering team is busy working on their hydroponics project! They're looking forward to seeing the growth of their test plants.
  • Bottle Drive and Silent Auction! August 2017
    We were super successful with getting bottles for our bottle drive, with our first one raising over $1000! This could not have been done without the support of not only our communities, but also the local businesses around the Edmonton area (who are all noted on our sponsor's page)! Thank you all!
  • aGEM September 2017
    We return with a new presentation, a new set of presenters, and a renewed motivation to do better the second time around! We were very lucky to have been able to compete in another event such as this one, as we were able to gain more insight on our project. All of this is just in time for iGEM!
  • Elementary Presentation October 2017
    Presented at George P. Nicolson Elementary; lots of support!


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