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− | <li> | + | <li> Organisation of ACUR conference. </li> |
− | </li> | + | <ul> <li> ACUR funding submitted, India and Ali are preparing slideshow presentation. </li> </ul> |
− | </ | + | <li> Indiegogo online fundraiser set up by Adrianna. </li> |
− | </ | + | <li> Ali, Adrianna and Winonah attended a meeting with a potential key sponsor (Bioplatforms). They discussed all aspects of the project from human practices through to the wet lab. </li> |
− | < | + | <ul> <li> Currently waiting to hear back from the company. </li> </ul> |
− | < | + | <li> Dr Egg Digital: Team members Ari, Steven and India collaborated with a team of game developers and artists from Dr Egg Digital as science consultants for a game testing and puzzle planning event. </li> |
− | </ | + | <ul> <li> Led by Dr Catherine Fargher, the concept of the videogame is based from her successful theatre show Dr Egg and the Man with No Ear and chapter book publication.</li> |
− | < | + | <li> A class of 8-12 year olds from the Queenwood School Catalyst Program were audience to an age appropriate lecture led by the Macquarie iGEM team on the basics of synthetic biology and its applications, and the possible future prospects of our project in renewable energy. </li> |
− | <ul> | + | <ul> <li> The lecture spurred the creativity of the children who then brainstormed game puzzles and character scripts for the Dr Egg Digital game that is being designed to incorporate the national school science curriculum for grades 3-8. </li> |
− | <li> </li> | + | <li> The resulting ideas from this collaboration will be incorporated into this educational videogame that is set to be released in February 2018. </li> </ul> |
− | </ul> | + | <li> The event was part of Australia’s National Science Week 2017, with our project aptly relating to this year’s theme being ‘Future Earth’. </li> |
+ | <li> Impressed by how this event engaged their students, Queenwood School shared information of our iGEM team and the community outreach we have participated in on their social media channels and their school publications. </li> | ||
+ | <ul> <li> “Thanks for your AWESOME work yesterday! Lindy the main teacher from Queenwood said she has never seen them so engaged.” – Dr Catherine Fargher (Dr Egg Digital)</li> | ||
+ | <li> “Dear Dr Walsh, thank you for letting me come to the Dr Egg excursion. It was really fun, it was possibly one of the best days of my life!!!! I loved inventing the game about Vivi. | ||
+ | P.S. glowing Cats. | ||
+ | P.P.S cat DNA with glowing jellyfish DNA with narwhal horn DNA = cat-a-corn." – Siana (Queenwood School student) | ||
+ | http://www.dreggdigital.com/ </li> </ul> </ul> | ||
+ | <li> Open Day: Team member India co-presented a lecture with the head of department for Chemical and Biomolecular Sciences, Professor Alison Rodger, at Macquarie University’s Open Day. </li> | ||
+ | <ul> <li> The lecture introduced the basic concepts behind synthetic biology, what to study to enter a career in this field, and introduced the iGEM competition and our project to prospective new students. </li> | ||
+ | <li> A similar talk was completed by Ali, with Jenny Donald, to incoming BSc (Human Bio) and BMedScs students, on what iGEM is and Macquarie’s history in the competition. </li> </ul> </ul> | ||
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