Team:Shenzhen SFLS/HP/Silver

Scientific Festival & junior high school of SFLS presentation

It’s essential for education to cultivate the enlightening scientific thought of primary and middle school students.

In order to popularize synthetic biology and the project of our iGEM team, on April 20th, we joined the Scientific Festival in Shenzhen Foreign Languages School and held the presentation for our whole students . Scientific Festival assembles and inspects the achievement in technological education, which is a stage for students to exhibit their talent on science.

We introduced iGEM competition, synthetic biology within its application, and other biological technologies to the senior high school students. The speaker used simple and understandable words and a interesting video to attack audiences’ attention deeply.

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Meanwhile, we also gave a lecture for junior high school students. On June 5th, we held a presentation at junior high school of Shenzhen Foreign Language School. Many students joined in this presentation. Before the speech, we simply introduced our team and displayed the prizes of following questions so that students would pay more attention toward our speech.

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At first, we related the discovery and exploration of DNA with humorous words. During the speech, we returned the story about the exploring experience by using the sitcom and alternated some interesting questions. Then, we introduced iGEM and synthetic biology. In order to let students know about synthetic biology more clearly, we played a biological video. The fancy frame and vivid language caused the thought and communication between students.

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Before these two presentation, we sorted out the information from investigation in hospital and on line questionnaire about Trichophyton rubrum. We integrated the public myth from the questionnaire and methods of guarding dermatosis into our presentation, reminding students not to underestimate the harmfulness of dermatosis; guard the disease in time; and protect health.

The purpose of this activity is to encourage students to actively join the creation and use creation to change the world.