Bronze medal

• We have registered our team

• We have completed the judging form

• We have produced a team wiki

• We will be presenting a poster and a talk at the iGEM jamboree

• We have described our project and attributed all our work

• We have submitted nine new parts to the registry, all of which are documented on our parts page

Silver medal

• We have successfully shown that LacRS(BBa_K1526009) and cysP (BBa_K1526003) are working as expected

• We are working on completing the characterization of LacRS(BBa_K1526009) and cysP (BBa_K152600) as well as the rest of our parts in the registry

• We have submitted our parts to the registry and have received confirmation of acceptance on 8 out of 9.

• We have carried out ethics and sustainability surveys in order to determine what factors have the greatest impact in how the general public perceives GMOs and what approaches would be more likely to bring the public on board with our project, as well as with other initiatives that use GMOs in bioremediation.