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Students are very groups with a strong thirst for knowledge and curiosity, so we went to Tieling High School and gave campus talks to students of different ages about synthetic biology. At the end of the talk, we started a Q&A time, students and their teachers asked a lot and shared their dreams to us. At the same time we did some questionnaire investigations in order to know what they are interesting in and which is the best way for them to touch the synthetic biology.

We negotiated with some elective teachers and gave a 20min class to students in Tongji University. In this course we introduced basic knowledge of synthetic biology and because there were some students who majored in other specialities, we use kinds of metaphor to make them understand what synthetic biology is.

After that, we use social software to disseminate recruiting information and introduced iGEM to students in Tongji. We hope iGEM will show them a bigger world!

S.T.E.A.M Education

The fablab Shanghai ’s movement is closely aligned with the DIY, the open source hardware and the free and open source movement, and shares philosophy as well as technology with people from every group.

We established a long-term friendly relations of cooperation with fablab Shanghai and worked together at bio-fablab. We are now preparing for a kit of STEAM Education with a simple and practical bio-toolbox and APP. It is gratifying that Fablab Shanghai gave us helping-hands on industrial mapping and making instruments.

The bio-toolbox is aimed to children, we want to make open source biological instrument at a low cost and make the biological instrument much easier to operation. It may let more people do a biological experiment without the limits of experimental environment and professional knowledge. The toolbox are in the making and will be presented to primary schools and middle schools. Now the tool box has been designed well and will enter the trial soon

In order to give a better user experience, we introduced our project and toolbox to students from School of design and got a lot advice on user experience and new applications

As well as S.T.E.A.M Education is very popular among students and parents, lots of S.T.E.A.M Education schools have been established. But we find that there are no biological-correlated class in China and it is even scarce in the world, so we designed a biology class firstly in China and wanted to let the synthetic biology be known by more community members. We have already contacted some high schools in Shanghai and will add this course as a elective course. Tieling High School would be the first experimental unit. We were happy to hear that schoolmasters had great interest in our course and hope to do our best to spread it.

This course focuses on the education of basic knowledge of molecular biology, biochemistry and microbiology, meanwhile, we introduce synthetic biology to all the students and let them design thire own engineering bacteria. We use a variety of methods to make esoteric theories much easier for them to understand: we use building blocks to annotation synthetic biology; we use similar muisc to show what the variation is and how does the bio-tool BLAST work……And Fablab Shanghai will give them a mechanical course to lead them make simple instrument transferpettor. We think firsthand experience plays the most important role in studying so we teached biosafety and basic experiment to them.

For more information about the course and toolbox you can contact us by sending e-mail to 3141244178@qq.com,we welcome to your consultation.