One of our accomplishments is that we were able to successfully amplify pgaA into the iGEM shipping vector. We made sure that it contained the correct DNA sequence and added it to the registry. Last year, unfortunately we had not successfully submitted anything, so this year it was exciting to witness our team adding new parts to the registry. This part, pgaA, had never been submitted to the iGEM database. However, after a few headaches, we were able to create the DNA sequence and properly submit it to the database.