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+ | <h2>Torrey Hills Elementary School STEM Day</h2><br> | ||
+ | <h6>We wanted to bring our STEM Day to a broader audience and in a more organized way. Thus, we contacted several local elementary schools and received opportunity to set up an assembly-style STEM Day presentation at Torrey Hills Elementary School. With more than 100 6th grade students and their four respective teachers as our audience, we were faced with the unique challenge of delivering our message on an unprecedented scale. We chose to present primarily on the concept of DNA, which had yet to be introduced to the sixth graders in class. We used play-doh and pipe cleaners as models for DNA and discussed how our project modified the DNA of bacteria to help solve oil spills. Throughout this STEM Day, we saw how the students were engaged in these various activities and many of them demonstrated surprise and elation in learning about these concepts. We ultimately hope to have introduced the sixth graders to new ideas while challenging the teachers to include synthetic biology in their lessons as a more present-day scientific innovation.</h6> <br> | ||
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+ | <h3> Modeling DNA! </h3> | ||
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<h2>Synthetic Biology Kits</h2><br> | <h2>Synthetic Biology Kits</h2><br> | ||
<h6>Our team wanted to package the lessons that we created so that more people, especially young scientists interest in synthetic biology, could enjoy and learn even more in depth about our criteria and objectives relating to our research project and aim. We met up with some of the individual teachers, including the department head of the local middle school, and discussed how they might incorporate synthetic biology as a concept into their curriculum. We hope to spread our message into the community in a sustainable way so that once iGEM 2017 ends, our project will leave a lasting impact in the minds of local students interested in science. Hopefully we can not only help make synthetic biology a bigger part of science classes in San Diego starting from younger ages, but also spark a insatiable interest for bioengineering and synthetic biology in their hearts and minds. This was some of the positive feedback that we received from the department head of the local middle school: “I know the seventh graders will love doing experiments put together by high school students!” “I am super excited about your project and your outreach efforts!” We are so excited that we can inspire not only students, but teachers as well, in their efforts to implement synthetic biology into their curriculum! </h6> <br> | <h6>Our team wanted to package the lessons that we created so that more people, especially young scientists interest in synthetic biology, could enjoy and learn even more in depth about our criteria and objectives relating to our research project and aim. We met up with some of the individual teachers, including the department head of the local middle school, and discussed how they might incorporate synthetic biology as a concept into their curriculum. We hope to spread our message into the community in a sustainable way so that once iGEM 2017 ends, our project will leave a lasting impact in the minds of local students interested in science. Hopefully we can not only help make synthetic biology a bigger part of science classes in San Diego starting from younger ages, but also spark a insatiable interest for bioengineering and synthetic biology in their hearts and minds. This was some of the positive feedback that we received from the department head of the local middle school: “I know the seventh graders will love doing experiments put together by high school students!” “I am super excited about your project and your outreach efforts!” We are so excited that we can inspire not only students, but teachers as well, in their efforts to implement synthetic biology into their curriculum! </h6> <br> | ||
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+ | <h3> Safety and laboratory application </h3> | ||
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<h2>Community Survey</h2><br> | <h2>Community Survey</h2><br> |
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