Education

We held a workshop and made a presentation at Sapporo Kita High School in Hokkaido, to the students majoring in science.

Our Goal

Through our lecture, we wanted high school students to understand three main points.

• Tell what iGEM is and what our activity is.
• Encourage high school students to be interested in iGEM.
• Give correct information of genetic technology.
• Give an oppotunity for them to have opinions about gene recombination.

We showed them some examples of practical applications and took time to think about gene recombination and its future.

Survey

We show some opinions we got in this workshop. The title is "How do you think about gene recombination?"

STUDENT 1

"Against gene recombination, I had little knowledge about it. However, taking this lecture, I found well that it had a possibility to give our daily life so big benefits."

"I hope that we make the risk of gene recombination smaller little by little and such a technology will be used more widely. By more and more people getting correcr knowledge of gene recombination, it may be common use."

‏STUDENT 2

"After this lecture, I got two findings. One is that we can put our hope in new technology like gene recombination for foods and our life in the future. The other is that we have big responsibility to use such a new technology because we don't know its effects of GMO. It’s important to make use of correct knowledge on gene recombination we got today and share it to as many people as possible."

‏STUDENT 3

I agree with using gene recombination. However, I also know it has ethical problems and have only a vague idea for it. Because of this, I can’t decide my opinion about it yet.

We have future tasks; we have to show clearly how genetically modified organisms effect environment and human health, and have to make it more safe and evidential.