We live in an era where information flow is overwhelming. To inform the public about what’s going on in science we have to be develop our social media skills in addition to being good at "selling" our research to the media. In other words we have to be good at science communication. Our team has focused on these issues and we have learned a few things that we hope can make it easier for next years team (under trouble shooting). We have also made a media-plan that might help future teams to see how to spend the time, and how to get in touch with the media. Below we've listed just about everything we've done related to media.

TV

• NRK (the National Broadcasting Company of Norway). We have contacted both the news and the science program Schrödingers katt.
• Østlandssendingen (A part of NRK that only cover local news for eastern Norway)

None of these has made programs about iGEM as far as we’re concerned. We were filmed during the meeting with Drew Endy and the NTNU-team in Trondheim, but we’ve not managed to find out where and at what time it was broadcasted.

Newspapers and Journals

• Aftenposten (one of the biggest newspapers in Norway). We wrote an article for the science part of the news paper that was positively received. It has not been published. We have also been in touch with them to try to get an interview, but without sucess.
• Varden (a local newspaper for one of the participants). No response.
• Østlandets Blad (a daily newspaper for the eastern region of Norway).
• Teknisk Ukeblad They wrote the following about us the (01.08.14): http://www.tu.no/industri/2014/07/31/skal-fa-bakterier-til-a-fungere-som-organer
• Genialt (issued four times a year, it is the information from the Norwegian Biotechnology council) → The website of the Norwegian Biotechnology Advisory Board http://www.bioteknologiradet.no/2014/08/designer-bakteriefabrikk/ (21.08.2014). The article was also published in their printed magazine, Genialt, issue number 3 2014.