Team:Austin Texas/human practices

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[[file:Ellacollectscoffee.JPG|thumb|right| Ella collecting coffee sample from Austin Java]]
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In 2014, the UT Austin iGEM team was asked to create a presentation for the [http://sxsw.com/exhibitions/sxsw-create/participants-2014 South By Southwest (SXSW) 2014 Create event]. The SXSW festival is an annually held set of music, film and interactive events. The Create event focuses on up and coming maker/hacker/DIY culture. There were many relatively new team members, so the team saw this as an opportunity to not only teach the new members essential research techniques, but also to reach out to the community and raise awareness for the emerging field of synthetic biology. We decided to revive an old iGEM project, the [[file:Jordantalkscoffee.JPG|thumb|left| Jordan discussing our project with a coffee shop employee at Flat Track Coffee]][https://2012.igem.org/Team:Austin_Texas/Caffeinated_coli "Caffeinated coli,"] and thought it would be interesting to measure the caffeine content of various different brands and types of coffee.  
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In 2014, the UT Austin iGEM team was asked to create a presentation for the [http://sxsw.com/exhibitions/sxsw-create/participants-2014 South By Southwest (SXSW) 2014 Create event]. The SXSW festival is an annually held set of music, film and interactive events. The Create event focuses on up and coming maker/hacker/DIY culture. There were many relatively new team members, so the team saw this as an opportunity to not only teach the new members essential research techniques, but also to reach out to the community and raise awareness for the emerging field of synthetic biology. We decided to revive an old iGEM project, the [[file:Jordantalkscoffee.JPG|thumb|left| Jordan discussing our project with Matt Bolick, co-owner of Flat Track Coffee]][https://2012.igem.org/Team:Austin_Texas/Caffeinated_coli "Caffeinated coli,"] and thought it would be interesting to measure the caffeine content of various different brands and types of coffee.  
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Jordan, a senior member of the group, took charge and assembled a map with all of the local coffee shops in Austin. The group took a Saturday and split up to visit dozens of coffee shops, collecting samples of their house coffee. We were met with much enthusiasm by the coffee shop owners and employees, who's interest had been peaked when we described our experiment.  
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Jordan, a senior member of the group, took charge and assembled a map of about 40 local coffee shops in Austin. The team took a Saturday and split up to visit dozens of coffee shops, collecting samples of their house coffee. We were met with much enthusiasm by the coffee shop owners and employees, who's interest had been peaked when we described our experiment.  
[[file:UT_Austin_Coffee_shops_map.png|200px|thumb|right| [http://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=zlUDhks6KHxI.ketDvlvg6zis Click here for an interactive map of coffee shops we visited!]]]
[[file:UT_Austin_Coffee_shops_map.png|200px|thumb|right| [http://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=zlUDhks6KHxI.ketDvlvg6zis Click here for an interactive map of coffee shops we visited!]]]

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