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Team:Carnegie Mellon/Our Projects
From 2014.igem.org
Created the SynBio Educational Series, kits that will be distributed through DNAZone for K-12 students in the Pittsburgh area, and beta-tested with other 350 students and teachers reached in different cities and in Bolivia
Interviewed with the leading expert on remediation techniques used to eliminate estrogenic compounds in water, the director of the PostNatural History Museum, and a PhD Reverend on bioethics and genetic engineering
Hosted our first iGEM Meetup with five different teams from the Midwest and Northeast Region and collaborated with two teams in modeling and human practices
Outreach (n.): An organization’s involvement with or activity in the community, especially in the context of social welfare
The Carnegie Mellon University 2014 iGEM team spent hundreds of man-hours to teach students, teachers, community members, and collaborate with other teams for heightening awareness on synthetic biology and promoting a scientific interface between the lab and society.
