Team:Northwestern/Outreach
In mid-July, we organized a workshop for a class of high school students participating in a Biotechnology class over the summer. In the workshop, we gave the students pre-surveys to gauge their knowledge and interest in science and particularly synthetic biology. We then had two graduate students present on their own research to expose them to relevant topics in the field and give them a sense of what it means to conduct research in a university setting. We then split the group in two, where half of the students toured a lab on campus and the other half stayed back to learn more about our project and play syn-bio jeopardy. After the two groups switched and repeated those activities, we gave the whole group post-surveys to see what they had learned and if synthetic biology would be something that they would consider pursuing in the future.
