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The "6th CeBiTec pupils academy" took place from July, 24th 2017 to July, 28th 2017.
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Revision as of 19:29, 3 October 2017

Public Engagement

Biotech Quiz Show

To offer students of natural sciences related degree programs a more manifold proposal to establish their scientific knowledge and lab experience aside from their daily university routine, we designed and planned a biotech quiz show which will be arranged as a social event at the end of the year. This competition is designed for several teams with three to five members. These teams compete against each other in three categories, with games like “refill pipette tip boxes”, “estimate colonies on a plate”, “assemble a bioreactor” and a “pipetting challenges”. The teams collect points in each game to win and in the end, there will be an award ceremony. We organized the biotech quiz show together with the btS Bielefeld, a non-profit and independent student initiative, seeing themselves as a go-between for students, universities and companies related to life sciences [https://bts-ev.de/bts/]. To discuss the realization of our event we met with the btS on 31st of August, strengthening the cooperation of the iGEM team and the btS.

Figure 1: The cooperation meeting between the iGEM team Bielefeld-CeBiTec 2017 and the btS Bielefeld. On the left: team member Yannic Kerkhoff; on the right: first chairmen Pierre Kugler

The quiz is addressed to students in the 2nd and 3rd semester of biotechnology and molecular biology. Furthermore, we offer this game during the “introductory week” for the freshmen of the life sciences fields. We are sure that the idea of cooperating with other university related organizations to further the interaction within the campus inspires others to follow our concept regarding the communication. We wish all future participants of our biotech quiz show great fun and good luck! You can find the full version of our presentation below. Feel free to use this as inspiration for your own life sciences social event:

The Pupils Academy

What the pupils academy for synthetic biology is about:

The "6th CeBiTec pupils academy" took place from July, 24th 2017 to July, 28th 2017. The purpose of this event is to teach synthetic biology and biotechnology to high school pupils with outstanding grades. All pupils are only one year away from their graduation. This year, 20 pupils (6 male and 14 female) ,who are highly motivated and interested, were participants in this years’ pupils academy. The program for the mostly 17-year old pupils was partitioned into a mixture of theoretical and experimental sections. Lectures about a broad range of topics in synthetic biology and biotechnology were held. Additionally, more interactive and reflective sessions like a discussion about the implications of CRISPR/Cas9 were part of the program. However, one of the main aspects of the academy were the practical courses. They featured topics of synthetic biology, bioinformatics, taxonomic identifications and proteomics. In addition, an introduction into scientific work was given. Furthermore, the pupils academy was accompanied by get-togethers every evening. Pupils got into contact to students like us, PhD student, and professors.

Our impact on the pupils academy:

The pupils academy was a great possibility for us to take synthetic biology to high school students. Therefore, we organized all four practical sessions on synthetic biology. Theoretical explanations were integrated into typical experiments from synthetic biology. The students learned some basics about different transformation methods while performing heat shock as well as electroporation on their own. Moreover, plasmid isolation and analysis as well as the identification of different bacterial resistance genes were taught. Furthermore, some of the given talks featured iGEM and our project. Besides the lab work, we tried to connect to the pupils by organizing a pizza evening and we were available for discussions at the get-togethers. We could answer their questions about university, different studies and more, always giving them some input on synthetic biology. Some weeks after the end of the academy, we organized a re-meetup to answer questions the pupils came up with in the meantime.