Team:SCUT-China/Policy&Practices/Campus Activity

Through this year, the place where we mainly did to popularize the concept of synthetic biology and antimicrobial resistance is campus. As college students, the most familiar and influenced place is campus. So we did a serious of campus activities, some are in college campus, others are in high school campus. What we hope is that maybe the freshmen or the high school students will be interested at this science and devote themselves to improve it. The development of synthetic biology should start from students.

In December 2013, we held an activity called “To be an early bird in the laboratory” for the freshmen of our collage, during which we taught some basic skills about the molecular biological experiments. Meanwhile, we spread the concept of synthetic biology to the freshmen.

In June 2014, during the open day of our school, we settled a tent in the campus to answer some questions about the synthetic biology and iGEM for the high school students.

In June 2014, we arrived at Chaozhou district to do a three-day propaganda in the local high school. We visited 4 high schools: Chaozhou Jinshan high school, Chaozhou high school, Chaozhou Huaqiao high school and Raoping second high school. We settled tents there to popularize synthetic biology and made a presentation to deliver the knowledge, meanwhile, we delivered many brochures, which made more than 2,000 students have understanding of synthetic biology.

We organized and participated in the 2014 National High Educated
Teenager Scientific Camp – sub-camp of south china university of technology during which we gave a lecture about the advanced synthetic biology to combat the Antimicrobial Resistance and iGEM to all of the teenagers joined this activity.

"The 2014 National High Educated Teenager Scientific Camp–sub-camp of south china university of technology" was successfully held in SCUT. 200 senior students from Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Sichuan, Hunan, Anhui, Jiangxi, Hubei, Yunnan took part in this educational activity. This activity was direct by the idea which is "fly to SCUT, fly to your dream". During this very week, these students learned about the culture and spirit of SCUT, the celebrity of top teacher and the charm of science. All these variable and interesting scientific event did leave unforgettable memory to these students. 

There was a presentation about how to use biology to solve the bacterial drug resistance and the tenth iGEM anniversary celebration. Many students were inspired and got lots of interests about biology and ask us some biological questions in their mind curiously.