Team:Carnegie Mellon/Achievements
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<li>Reached 531 students, ages 10-18, total of 243 hours and 32 teachers</li> | <li>Reached 531 students, ages 10-18, total of 243 hours and 32 teachers</li> | ||
<li>Designed synthetic biology kits for lending to middle school teachers through <a href="http://www.cmu.edu/cnast/outreach-dnazone/">DNAzone</a></li> | <li>Designed synthetic biology kits for lending to middle school teachers through <a href="http://www.cmu.edu/cnast/outreach-dnazone/">DNAzone</a></li> | ||
- | <li>Tested kits for DNA Extraction and Creature Feature with students</li> | + | <li>Tested <a href="https://2014.igem.org/Team:Carnegie_Mellon/SynBio">SynBio kits</a> for DNA Extraction and Creature Feature with students</li> |
<li>Children of CMU Faculty and Staff at <a href="http://www.cmu.edu/staff-council/news-archive/2013-2014-news/news-todsw-2014.html">Take Our Sons and Daughters to Work Day</a> (April 24)</li> | <li>Children of CMU Faculty and Staff at <a href="http://www.cmu.edu/staff-council/news-archive/2013-2014-news/news-todsw-2014.html">Take Our Sons and Daughters to Work Day</a> (April 24)</li> | ||
<li><a href="http://www.environmentalcharterschool.org/">Environmental Charter School</a> Outreach (June 11)</li> | <li><a href="http://www.environmentalcharterschool.org/">Environmental Charter School</a> Outreach (June 11)</li> |
Revision as of 01:10, 18 October 2014
We accomplished many things this summer...
- Formed and registered the team.
- Obtained a Summer Undergraduate Research Grant (SURG)
- Submitted 35 parts to the Registry
- Documented new photosensitizers, an estrogen biosensor and a robust T7 RNA Polymerase reporter system
- Validated a new photosensitizer and improved another
- Improved the characterization of fluorescent proteins and a T7 RNA Polymerase reporter system
We collaborated extensively:
- Participated in the iGEM Interlab Study
- Worked with Pitt iGEM Team on modeling
- Made a CMU iGEM Twitter
- Had a really great iGEM Meetup (September 6)
- Worked with Ivy Tech to improve the DNA Extraction Kit
We spent lots of time with our community.
- Reached 531 students, ages 10-18, total of 243 hours and 32 teachers
- Designed synthetic biology kits for lending to middle school teachers through DNAzone
- Tested SynBio kits for DNA Extraction and Creature Feature with students
- Children of CMU Faculty and Staff at Take Our Sons and Daughters to Work Day (April 24)
- Environmental Charter School Outreach (June 11)
- SAMS (July 3)
- TechBio and SysBio presentation with Pitt iGEM (July 11)
- SRI presentation at CMU (July 11)
- Science Scavenger Hunt (July 18)
- Sciencepalooza (July 31)
- Pittsburgh Public School Professional Development (August 20)
- Interviews with experts
- We also worked on microfluidics chamber design, production and implementation Awareness