Teams:

Northwestern:

Northwestern was one of the first teams the students reached out to. The two teams were able to exchange project information and gave each other preliminary feedback.

Imperial London:

The wiki was perhaps the most challenging part of the iGem components. The students were struggling since there are no computer experts on the team. This was the case until the Imperial Team in London came to the rescue. The Brits were able to guide the students on wiki components and even offered their old website code for the students to dissect and examine to implement on their website. The Carroll team was extremely grateful and also hope to meet them in Boston to express their thanks.

London School of Boys:

The London School of Boys were also very beneficial in wiki help. Adam Jones assisted Annie in all questions regarding the wiki and went above and beyond to help the students with coding.

Singapore:

Wilbert from the Singapore University team was very helpful. He was very enthusiastic to help in all iGem components and technicalities. Wilbert was very outgoing and gave pointers about the Jamboree as well as the iGem “Do’s and Don’ts”. Since this was the students first year with the iGem process, Wilbert meticulously explained some of the more obscure steps to achieve medal criteria and even offered to assist them on the modeling portion of the project. The students still speak fondly go Wilbert and hope to meet him at the Jamboree in November.

US Army/US Marine:

The U.S. Army and Marine were 2 of the teams that the Carroll students were able to contact. They had a long Skype discussion about the iGem process and goals. They had a lengthy discussion about the Interlab, Wiki details, as well as the happenings at the Jamboree. The US Navy team advised the students to do the Interlab carefully and use the already provided excel spreadsheet to make it easier, which the students followed. The students offered to help the US Army team with troubleshooting their project. After that was done, the students were able to complete the Interlab swiftly with minimal hiccups.

Michigan State:

The students will attend the mini-Jamboree/meet-up on July 29th at Michigan State University. There will be quite a few teams attending with many things planned. The students will give a short presentation and then discuss and receive feedback and criticism. The students are excited!