Team:The Tech Museum/Project

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Our goal is to enable Tech Museum visitors with no biology background to become part of our team by engineering bacteria hands-on. In our project, participants are guided through the transformation of e.coli with plasmids. We randomize the expression of the three color reporters, so when the transformed bacteria grow, colonies appear as a different colors, creating bacterial "pixels" representing a particular combination of reporter protein concentrations. Visitors then take the petri dishes to a scanning station that uses computer vision to quantify the color and intensity of each colony. This is the first time a museum has entered this competition. Our team is prototyping ways in which we as an institution can offer novel activities for our community to both learn and develop the skills of future innovators.

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