Team:Paris Bettencourt/Newsletter

This biweekly iGEM newsletter is cofounded by the Paris-Bettencourt team and the Xiamen University team in June. Through the three and half months, we had four regular issues, one special issue that includes interviews of past judge and iGEMer, and one student review session of the judging process. There were more than 30 teams involved, from more than eight countries and regions. The regular issues have two major parts: project update and team member introduction. The teams wrote about one of the parts every two weeks, asked questions they want feedback on, and provided insights about other teams’ projects.
We hope that through this activity, the teams are able to keep better record of their own projects, gain feedback from their peers and get to know other young synthetic biologists. It is a system of real-time peer review. We also try to provide the iGEM organization interesting feedbacks of how students regard the judging standard.