Education

We held a workshop and made a presentation to the students majoring in science at Sapporo Kita High School in Hokkaido.

Our Goal

We held some lecture including the following topics.

• what iGEM is and what our activity is.
• Encourage high school students to be interested in iGEM.
• Give correct information of genetic technology.
• Give an oppotunity for them to have opinions about gene recombination.

We showed them some examples of practical applications and discussed about gene recombination and its future.

Survey

We also conducted a survey about "How do you think about gene recombination?" to the students

STUDENT 1

Against gene recombination, I had little knowledge about it. However, taking this lecture, I found well that it had a possibility to give our daily life so big benefits.

I hope that we make the risk of gene recombination smaller little by little and such a technology will be used more widely. By more and more people getting correct knowledge of gene recombination, it may be common use.

‏STUDENT 2

After this lecture, I got two findings. One is that we can put our hope in new technology like gene recombination for foods and our life in the future. The other is that we have big responsibility to use such a new technology because we don't know its effects of GMO. It’s important to make use of correct knowledge on gene recombination we got today and share it to as many people as possible.

‏STUDENT 3

I agree with using gene recombination. However, I also know it has ethical problems and have only a vague idea for it. Because of this, I can’t decide my opinion about it yet.

We have future tasks; we have to show clearly how GMOs effect on environment and human health and have to make it more safe and evidential.