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<br><h6> Our Outreach team simultaneously held two one-week long summer camps in both genetics & environmental science and physics for elementary to middle school students. We taught the students concepts pertinent to everyday lab work, reinforced with hands on activities, experiments, and projects. Furthermore, we taught the students fundamental biotechnology techniques, such as micropipetting, gel electrophoresis, serial dilution, growing bacteria in petri dishes, and PCR. In the physics camp we delved into concepts, such as energy, forces, light, heat, and kinetics. As a result of this camp we increased publicity of our team, project, and the field of synthetic biology as well as increasing exposure to advanced biotechnology techniques for younger students who did not have this opportunity at their own schools. We received much positive feedback from the students, and many of then expressed interest in attending another camp and in joining the iGEM team as high schoolers! Through the results of our camp, we discovered that synthetic biology could be extremely beneficial for the future of science, because so many children were interested in our research and in learning more about the fundamental concepts in our project. Thus, we knew that our project would greatly improve the lives of future generations and be safely applicable in a world who welcome science with open arms and excitement. | <br><h6> Our Outreach team simultaneously held two one-week long summer camps in both genetics & environmental science and physics for elementary to middle school students. We taught the students concepts pertinent to everyday lab work, reinforced with hands on activities, experiments, and projects. Furthermore, we taught the students fundamental biotechnology techniques, such as micropipetting, gel electrophoresis, serial dilution, growing bacteria in petri dishes, and PCR. In the physics camp we delved into concepts, such as energy, forces, light, heat, and kinetics. As a result of this camp we increased publicity of our team, project, and the field of synthetic biology as well as increasing exposure to advanced biotechnology techniques for younger students who did not have this opportunity at their own schools. We received much positive feedback from the students, and many of then expressed interest in attending another camp and in joining the iGEM team as high schoolers! Through the results of our camp, we discovered that synthetic biology could be extremely beneficial for the future of science, because so many children were interested in our research and in learning more about the fundamental concepts in our project. Thus, we knew that our project would greatly improve the lives of future generations and be safely applicable in a world who welcome science with open arms and excitement. | ||
− | We expand more about our camp and other education events under the <a href="/Team:CCA_San_Diego/Engagement">Education & Public Engagement page.</a></h6><br> | + | We expand more about our camp and other education events (including pictures) under the <a href="/Team:CCA_San_Diego/Engagement">Education & Public Engagement page.</a></h6><br> |
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<h2>Bioethics Seminar</h2> | <h2>Bioethics Seminar</h2> | ||
− | <br><p class="tab"><h6>The Bioethics Seminar allowed us to connect with our community by discussing the ethical concerns surrounding scientific, especially biology related, concerns in our society. By talking at length with members of our local community, we found out empirically that, although our community was rather humanities-focused, they greatly valued science as a major proponent of future success in our world. This was further emphasized by our “What Does Science Mean To You” Board, which showed that people greatly treasured science in their lives. Thus, we were assured that our project, which serves to improve our environment, was going to be widely applicable and safe, as tested in the lab, in reality. We expand more about our Bioethics Seminar under the <a href="/Team:CCA_San_Diego/Engagement">Education & Public Engagement page.</a></h6><br> | + | <br><p class="tab"><h6>The Bioethics Seminar allowed us to connect with our community by discussing the ethical concerns surrounding scientific, especially biology related, concerns in our society. By talking at length with members of our local community, we found out empirically that, although our community was rather humanities-focused, they greatly valued science as a major proponent of future success in our world. This was further emphasized by our “What Does Science Mean To You” Board, which showed that people greatly treasured science in their lives. Thus, we were assured that our project, which serves to improve our environment, was going to be widely applicable and safe, as tested in the lab, in reality. We expand more about our Bioethics Seminar (including pictures) under the <a href="/Team:CCA_San_Diego/Engagement">Education & Public Engagement page.</a></h6><br> |
<center><h2>iGEM STEM Days</h2></center> | <center><h2>iGEM STEM Days</h2></center> | ||
<center><h3>Cardiff-by-the-Sea Library</h3></center> | <center><h3>Cardiff-by-the-Sea Library</h3></center> | ||
− | <br><p class="tab"><h6>We set up stations; they were lab safety, extracting DNA from strawberries, DNA modeling, and a visual demonstration of our project that included an oil presentation and oil over water demonstration (teaching a bit of chemistry background). We received a myriad of positive feedback: "I know I want to be a scientist and this just shows how much fun science is". It was so rewarding that we could inspire future young scientists! More on the <a href="/Team:CCA_San_Diego/Engagement">Education and Public Engagement Page.</a></h6> | + | <br><p class="tab"><h6>We set up stations; they were lab safety, extracting DNA from strawberries, DNA modeling, and a visual demonstration of our project that included an oil presentation and oil over water demonstration (teaching a bit of chemistry background). We received a myriad of positive feedback: "I know I want to be a scientist and this just shows how much fun science is". It was so rewarding that we could inspire future young scientists! More on the <a href="/Team:CCA_San_Diego/Engagement">Education and Public Engagement Page (including pictures).</a></h6> |
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<h2> Synthetic Biology Kits </h2> | <h2> Synthetic Biology Kits </h2> | ||
− | <h6>Our team decided that we want to package the lessons that we created so that we wouldn't be the only ones spreading our ideas. 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 help make synthetic biology a bigger part of science classes in San Diego starting from younger ages. We expand more about our synthetic biology kits under the <a href="/Team:CCA_San_Diego/Engagement">Education & Public Engagement page.</a> <br><br></h6></h6><br> | + | <h6>Our team decided that we want to package the lessons that we created so that we wouldn't be the only ones spreading our ideas. 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 help make synthetic biology a bigger part of science classes in San Diego starting from younger ages. We expand more about our synthetic biology kits (including pictures) under the <a href="/Team:CCA_San_Diego/Engagement">Education & Public Engagement page.</a> <br><br></h6></h6><br> |
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