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<p>Art fair is a university event, which is held every year, for different student societies to promote their activities. We have opened a booth to promote our project and iGem as well. We set up pull-up banners about synthetic biology and our project's idea. We introduced and explained the content on the banners to students. We also distributed leaflets to students. Most of the students replied that they were benefited from our presentation. Moreover, we decorated our booth with photos of our laboratory and lab works. Students with no science knowledge background may not understand our project but they were interested in the apparatus in laboratory and how bacteria was cultured. Students who were interested in synthetic biology and would like to participated in the next year iGem competiton wrote down their contacts. | <p>Art fair is a university event, which is held every year, for different student societies to promote their activities. We have opened a booth to promote our project and iGem as well. We set up pull-up banners about synthetic biology and our project's idea. We introduced and explained the content on the banners to students. We also distributed leaflets to students. Most of the students replied that they were benefited from our presentation. Moreover, we decorated our booth with photos of our laboratory and lab works. Students with no science knowledge background may not understand our project but they were interested in the apparatus in laboratory and how bacteria was cultured. Students who were interested in synthetic biology and would like to participated in the next year iGem competiton wrote down their contacts. | ||
This event was successful. Students knew about synthetic biology and iGem after coming to the booth especially freshmen. Both students with and without science background benefited from our booth. We have also found many potential participant. | This event was successful. Students knew about synthetic biology and iGem after coming to the booth especially freshmen. Both students with and without science background benefited from our booth. We have also found many potential participant. | ||
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Human Practice
Energy Day
The event “Energy Day” is held by Faculty of Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong on August 20th, 2014.Hundreds of participants, including professors, researchers and experts from related industries were involved.This activity aimed to promote new technology in energy aspect, which was highly related to the goal of our project. We had a whole-day poster session, in which we present our project to various audiences. Our project aims at turning excess carbon dioxide in atmosphere to useful biofuel, methane. It was a wonderful opportunity to promote our project and also receive professional comments, which are discussed in our questionnaire analysis. Apart from sharing our project, we also introduce iGEM and synthetic biology, which has aroused a great interest among the visitors. They were amazed by the concept and the application of synthetic biology, and realized the underlying industrial value. Indeed, synthetic biology could make significant contributions in energy-related fields. We were glad to share our enthusiasm on this topic with others and also inspired them for further research and application. “Energy Day” has successfully raised the awareness of professionals towards synthetic biology and a novel environmental friendly way to generate biofuel.
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Presentation
In order to introduce the idea of synthetic biology and iGEM to high school students, we have done multiple speeches in Hong Kong. We aim to educate the young students about the creativity and potential of synthetic biology, a booming, novel topic which is not covered in their curriculum. We hope to arouse their interest and hopefully inspire them to join iGEM too. Currently, no Hong Kong team participates in HS iGEM competition. Encouraging high school students to join iGEM is crucial and exciting, as iGEMers, we believe it is our responsibility to play an active role. To demonstrate the unlimited applications of synthetic biology, we shared innovative award-winning projects in the past iGEM competitions. We also discussed our current project with them, eager to know their comments. Results from surveys provided us different insights into our projects, which were highly-valued. After the talks, many students approached us and asked us further details about iGEM and synthetic biology. It is truly rewarding to see so many students are interested and inspired. We hope Hong Kong HS iGEM teams can be seen in the near future, producing more novel ideas.
Laboratory workshop
As synthetic biology involves more specific equipment and advance skills, most of the high school students do not have chance of having real laboratory experience. We hope to provide some basic introduction of common equipments and techniques to the students. By holding laboratory workshops, we offer the students a hand-on experience of doing experience. We held a workshop to 10 students. Handbooks containing relevant experimental design, background knowledge and protocols were distributed. Experiments such as gel electrophoresis, plasmid DNA extraction…etc, are introduced. In addition, we gave pre-lab talks, emphasizing on safety issue and waste disposal. It is our belief that proper attitudes and manner go before skill. Throughout the workshop, each student got to handle their own experiments, with our guidance and support by the side. Needless to say, most of the participants were thrilled and eager to learn more about other lab techniques. Laboratory workshop gave a great interactive experience between the high school students and our team.
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Art Fair
Art fair is a university event, which is held every year, for different student societies to promote their activities. We have opened a booth to promote our project and iGem as well. We set up pull-up banners about synthetic biology and our project's idea. We introduced and explained the content on the banners to students. We also distributed leaflets to students. Most of the students replied that they were benefited from our presentation. Moreover, we decorated our booth with photos of our laboratory and lab works. Students with no science knowledge background may not understand our project but they were interested in the apparatus in laboratory and how bacteria was cultured. Students who were interested in synthetic biology and would like to participated in the next year iGem competiton wrote down their contacts. This event was successful. Students knew about synthetic biology and iGem after coming to the booth especially freshmen. Both students with and without science background benefited from our booth. We have also found many potential participant.
CUHK Information Day
Information day is the open day of the university. It aims to provide information about university programme to high school students. We have set up a counter to introduce iGem and our project. We discussed with visiters about synthetic biology and our project. For example, what their concerns about genetics engineering, do they think our project is safe and useful. High school students are encouraged to join the university and iGem. We also distributed souvenirs to visiters.
Survey
10 questionnaires from secondary school students.
All of them have studied biology.
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70% of them never heard of iGEM nor synthetic biology.
20% of them have only heard of iGEM.
Most of them learnt from high school biology.
Most of them think that workshop is the most effective way to raise public awareness towards synthetic biology. We have held workshop (photo added)
Just a few of them think there were enough ways for public to reach synthetic biology.
Most of them think that they are not familiar with synthetic biology and iGEM.
Most of them have positive attitude towards synthetic biology.
Most of them think that synthetic biology is safe.
Overall, they think synthetic biology is good for the whole society.
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80% of them are interested in synthetic biology and all of them will join activities related to synthetic biology if they were given a chance.
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Only part of them feel the pictures are dangerous.
70% of them will accept a more common adaptation of synthetic biology in daily life.
Most of them think our project is beneficial to the human being and will help to solve the problem of energy crisis. Environmental friendliness is the most attractive highlight to most of them, while cost is the main concern to them.
Most of them have shown a better understanding in synthetic biology after the workshop.
33 questionnaires from undergraduate students
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88% of them have studied biology.
64% of them are (were) major in science or engineering.
Almost half of them have heard of iGEM from different way.
Most of them think that poster and workshop are the most effective ways to raise public awareness towards synthetic biology (Show our poster too)
Most of them think there’s not enough way for public to reach synthetic biology.
Most of them think they were not familiar with synthetic biology nor iGEM before the activity.
Most of them have positive attitude towards synthetic biology and think it was safe and overall good to the whole society.
67% of them are interested in synthetic biology however 55% said they would join activities related to it if they were given a chance.
64% of them feel professional about the pictures and most of them agreed to a more common adaptation of synthetic biology in daily life.
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70% of them think our project is beneficial to the human being and it might help solving energy crisis and global warming.
Environmental friendliness is the most attractive highlight to them in our project, while efficiency will be their main concern.
Most of them have shown a better understanding in iGEM and synthetic biology after the presentation.
15 questionnaires from post-graduate students.
80% of them have studied biology.
Most of them major in science other than life science.
47% of them have heard of iGEM.
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Most of them think there’s not enough way for public to reach synthetic biology.Part of them are concerning the safety of synthetic biology. Most of them think that synthetic biology is interesting and is good for the whole society, but not everyone of them would be more aware about issues in synthetic biology neither do they interested in activities related to it.
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Most of them think that workshop will be the most effective way to raise public awareness towards synthetic biology. Most of them feel professional about the pictures yet most of them have no opinion towards a more common adaptation of synthetic biology in daily life. Most of them think that our project might help solving energy crisis. Environmental friendliness is the most attractive highlight to them, while efficiency will be their main concern. Most of them agreed their understanding towards iGEM and synthetic biology has increased after the presentation.
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Poster
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