Team:Tongji China/Engagement

Tongji iGEM - Collaboration

Engagement

We aimed to let more and more people from every group link to synthetic biology and iGEM.

Campus tlak

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.

Synthetic biology propaganda and iGEM new recruiting

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!

2^nd Open Night Live

The 2^nd Open Night Live was held to showcase the iGEM teams in Shanghai and to give people an opportunity to exchange ideas and ask questions to every iGEM member. It has been an honor for us to invite Fudan_China, Shanghaitech, STJU_BioX_Shanghai and ECUST to our Open Night Live.

We were delighted to find out that there were more college student watching and asking questions. Some audience members even made a few suggestions on what more our project could do, and we added the parts we thought were reasonable. There was a symposium among iGEM teams after the Open Night Live where we exchanged ideas. We also set up a live webcast and gave Open Night Live to iGEM teams in other provinces. It's really an unforgettable experience that we meet members of other iGEM team directly and interact together with more iGEM teams on the internet!