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<p>Waterloo iGEM had the privilege to be involved in the University of Waterloo’s Annual Science Open House. Children and their families had the chance to get involved in all sorts of hands-on science activities exploring many areas of science.</p>
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<p>This page is used by the judges to evaluate your team for the <a href="https://2016.igem.org/Judging/Awards#SpecialPrizes">Best Education and Public Engagement award</a>.</p>
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<p>Waterloo iGEM hoped to accomplish a few things by participating in this year’s open house: </p>
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We hoped to accomplish this through our activities centers. Using arts and crafts material, children got to design their own microorganism. They were introduced to the concept of using synthetic biology to modify existing microbes to perform awesome tasks. Each child created their own unique microbe with a cool new function it was able to accomplish through synthetic biology. We think one of the strengths of this activity was its accessibility for the wide age range of kids that attended the open house. Some of the ideas sounded like incredible future iGEM projects such as “curing the common cold”, “microbes that grow to a larger size”, “microbes with extra appendages to grab food”, “microbes that clean wounds” and our favourite “microbes that can do absolutely everything”.
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★ ALERT!

This page is used by the judges to evaluate your team for the Best Education and Public Engagement award.

Delete this box in order to be evaluated for this medal. See more information at Instructions for Pages for awards.

Do you want to be considered for the Best Education and Public Engagement award? Help the judges consider your team for this award by describing your work on this page.

Here are two examples of excellent Education and Public Engagement from 2015:

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