Team:Carnegie Mellon/Achievements

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Formed the team! 3 engineers, 2 biologists, 1 business and 1 industrial design, 2 sophomores, 1 junior, and 4 seniors, 6 females and 1 male</br>
Formed the team! 3 engineers, 2 biologists, 1 business and 1 industrial design, 2 sophomores, 1 junior, and 4 seniors, 6 females and 1 male</br>
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Obtained a SURG grant [http://http://www.cmu.edu/uro/SURG/index.html#surg Carnegie Mellon SURG] </br>
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Obtained a SURG grant [http://www.cmu.edu/uro/SURG/index.html#surg Carnegie Mellon SURG] </br>
Modeling collaboration with Pitt team</br>
Modeling collaboration with Pitt team</br>
Made a CMU iGEM Twitter </br>
Made a CMU iGEM Twitter </br>

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Team
Formed the team! 3 engineers, 2 biologists, 1 business and 1 industrial design, 2 sophomores, 1 junior, and 4 seniors, 6 females and 1 male
Obtained a SURG grant [http://www.cmu.edu/uro/SURG/index.html#surg Carnegie Mellon SURG]
Modeling collaboration with Pitt team
Made a CMU iGEM Twitter
iGEM Meetup (September 6)

Biology and Engineering
Submitted X parts to the Registry
Participated in the iGEM Interlab Study
Evaluated signal/noise of blue, green, yellow, orange and red fluorescent proteins in two bacterial strains
Killer Red Improvements, codon optimized and monomeric
Constructed an improved LED photobleaching device
Designed, cloned and tested an intein based biosensor for detecting estrogenic activity
Microfluidics chamber design, production and implementation
Meeting with Dr. Vanbriesen (July 2)
Meeting with Dr. Gregory (July 17)

Synthetic Biology Outreach
Reached X students, ages X-X, total of XX hours and XX teachers
Kits for DNA Extraction and Creature Feature
Designed synthetic biology kits for lending to middle school teachers
Tested the kits with students
CMU Take Our Sons and Daughters to Work Day (April 24)
Environmental Charter School Outreach (June 11)
SAMS (July 3)
Sciencepalooza (July 31)
Science Scavenger Hunt (July 18)
Pittsburgh Public School Professional Development (August 20)

Awareness
TechBio and SysBio presentation with Pitt iGEM (July 11)
SRI presentation at CMU (July 11)
Science Scavenger Hunt (July 18)