Revision as of 21:10, 6 October 2017

Human Practices

Human Practices Logbook

We did a Human Practices logbook and built an ethical matrix in order to think about ethics inside the globality of our projet, for every aspect of it.

Public Engagement & Education

Intervene in primary schools

Create of a card game about microbiology

Participate in the European Researcher's Nigh

Leading a conference about the future of synthetic biology

Inspire high schoolers to pursue a scientific career

Show fun experiments to children

Exhibitions on campus for future iGEMers

Communicate to local and national press

We wanted to show that it is possible to talk about biology, science in general and ethics with people from all ages and with different knowledge. We articulated our outreach strategy around three actions: discover, practice and discuss, to empower citizens or future citizens about their capability of thinking and acting on science. These three milestones are essential for us to give people a better understanding of the current challenges of science in the society.

Microbioworld

While doing several interventions in schools is in our opinion clearly a nice way for pupils to ‘learn by doing’, we thought is was also a good idea to bring scientific knowledge outside of the classroom. That’s why we came up with the idea of creating a strategy card game about biology. With this game, we are hoping to draw attention to the hidden world of microorganisms and make it visible elsewhere than on the bench of a scientist or inside a biology student’s notebook.

Integrated Human Practices

We expand our Silver Human Practices activity and went further in the exploitation of our ethical matrix by including it in the life cycle of our device.