<p>This year, 2014 NYMU-Taipei started to get on track since February. We took courses about iGEM and have been working together for months. Besides working on our own project, HOPE, we also started the 2015 NYMU-Taipei in September, a semester earlier than usual. Not only did we try to give them a whole aspect of iGEM, but we also brainstormed and learned together! </p>
<p>Last year, our seniors received outstanding prizes in the iGEM Jamboree. They were interviewed by lots of well-known newspapers and media in Taiwan, such as Liberty Times Net, ETtoday, and China Times. During these interviews, they mentioned how iGEM influenced students around the world by providing a great chance to broaden their horizons, boost their courage, and pulling ideas out of their imagination. </p>
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<p>NYMU was the first team in Taiwan to participate in iGEM. Most of the members on our team are freshman and sophomore students. During the process of brainstorming, discussion, and the conduction of experiments, we learn amazing things unmentioned in our text books. These include the importance of collaboration between teammates and enduring patience for endless experiments. Our seniors regarded NYMU-Taipei as a big family because we always work together to overcome difficulties and became great friends in the end. We enjoy spending time with each other, even if it meant staying overnight in our lab for experiments. This is the NYMU-Taipei Team from Taiwan, and we are working hard to let our school shine again this year. </p>
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<p>We decided to make this great change; starting in February this year was quite a big challenge for us. To start off, we held a welcome party for the incoming freshmen on 9/22. Some of our seniors from NYMU-Taipei 2013 also came to the bonding and shared their past experiences at MIT. It was definitely touching to see excitement sparkling in the freshmen’s eyes. Igniting their interest for iGEM was certainly a first priority for us! </p>
<p>After the welcome party, we arranged synthetic biology courses for them every Monday. Our juniors demonstrated great enthusiasm and interest in iGEM. </p>
<p>Besides guiding them to look through inspiring projects by other teams, we will also taught them knowledge about wiki editing, biobrick, modeling, and wet lab skills. Furthermore, they had opportunities to introduce a project of their own choice to others or to the public. We recently assigned them to film a short video to promote synthetic biology and celebrate the tenth anniversary of iGEM! </p>
Last year, our seniors received outstanding prizes in the iGEM Jamboree. They were interviewed by lots of well-known newspapers and media in Taiwan, such as Liberty Times Net, ETtoday, and China Times. During these interviews, they mentioned how iGEM influenced students around the world by providing a great chance to broaden their horizons, boost their courage, and pulling ideas out of their imagination.
NYMU was the first team in Taiwan to participate in iGEM. Most of the members on our team are freshman and sophomore students. During the process of brainstorming, discussion, and the conduction of experiments, we learn amazing things unmentioned in our text books. These include the importance of collaboration between teammates and enduring patience for endless experiments. Our seniors regarded NYMU-Taipei as a big family because we always work together to overcome difficulties and became great friends in the end. We enjoy spending time with each other, even if it meant staying overnight in our lab for experiments. This is the NYMU-Taipei Team from Taiwan, and we are working hard to let our school shine again this year.
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