Team:Shenzhen SFLS/HP/SUSTech Meet-up
On July.10th we held a diminutive meet up in Southern University of Science and Technology with their team. The visit was made up of 2 parts which the resourse was fully used and we built a great relationship.
As we’re highschoolers, and the condition of our project at the time is kind of complex, a number of problems need to be settled urgently, we firstly conferred with their contact for a reservation, then got the chance to have a talk with their advisor, Dr Hongmin Zhang. Through the process we mainly express exact problems that appeared in the experiments and discussed the feasibility of our assumption both with the professor and one of their team members, as the truss of our system info isn’t mature enough, with the help of the professional we could figure out information and make decisions much faster. In this part of our conversation, as we still had to make a choice between our two candidate projects, Dr Zhang helped us a lot on analyzing the disadvantages of experimenting on Staphylococcus aureus which saved us plenty of time. This is a crucial turning point to our final decision which we appreciated a lot.
What deserves to be mentioned is that, as experienced competitors, they initiatively helped us reckon our time left and offered a schedule available for reference, so that we’re more clear with the work and able to be ordered.
Our 2 teams then met in a hall and separately made simple presentations to introduce our projects. Though have known their project before, it’s abstract still in some way confused us, and through the explanation presented by students in charge of each part, we learnt a lot especially in how a professional research team runs and how we should efficiently organize such a team and do management. We kept on discussing, about our project deciding and the method of improving the efficiency of our experiment even while walking beneath the burning light.
The atmosphere is perfectly relaxing throughtout the whole meeting, and we visited their laboratory in passing with a student introduced us some advanced device. They also offered us varieties of material we urgently need which is really a big help.
By comparison, we got more specific advice directly on this tour than back in Shenzhen University, with this, we pushed on successfully(which was especially because we’ve finally figured out clearly where we should head to) and made time for further human practice and publicity work.
