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From 2014.igem.org

Please note that all information on this page is in a draft version. Please check back often for details.

REQUIREMENTS FOR ALL TEAMS

1. Team Composition
2. Team Structure
3. Registration and Other Fees
4. Project Documentation
5. Part Submission
6. Attribution
7. Safety
8. Project Presentation
9. Positive Contribution

1. Team Composition:

   The undergraduate section may have students who are up to 23 years old or younger and the overgraduate section can have students of any age.
   • An iGEM team must be affiliated with an accredited college or university.
   • The team must be supervised by at least two instructors, one of who must be a faculty member.
   • Students are considered undergraduates if they are 23 years of age or younger on 31 March 2013.
   • The team classification deadline is the same date as the roster deadline.

   (Read more about the introduction of the Undergraduate/Overgraduate sections in our 2013 competition Welcome letter)

2. Team Structure:

   The structure of iGEM teams is flexible. Several schools may combine to form a team and a school may have several teams. In particular, it is normal for a school to have both Software and Wetware teams.

3. Registration and Other Fees:

   • Team registration: A $TBD USD team registration fee is required for each team. (due to TBD).
   • World Championship attendance fees: For teams that advance to the World Championship, attendance fees are TBD.
   • For more information about fees see team registration fee page

4. Project Documentation:

   The team's project must be documented on the iGEM Wiki, the parts used in their project must be documented in the Registry. You have the freedom to be creative, but a few specific rules apply. See the wiki requirements page.

5. Part Submission:

   Your submissions are needed to make the Registry better each year. Teams are required to provide their parts as:
   • Standard biological parts in a standard BioBrick shipping plasmid pSB1C3, and as
   • High-quality documentation in the iGEM Registry.
   The physical DNA must be received by the Registry by the deadline. Be sure you understand the requirements before submitting your DNA. See the Registry DNA submission instructions. Parts must be Released in order to be considered by the judges. See the Requirements for Release

6. Attribution:

   The description of each project must clearly attribute work done by the Students and distinguish it from work done by others, including host labs, Advisors, Instructors, technicians, sponsors, professional website designers, artists, and commercial services. Please see the iGEM 2011 Imperial College Acknowledgements page for an example.

7. Safety:

   Teams are required to answer the Safety form by the deadline. The team PI (principle investigator) is responsible for attesting to the validity of the safety form contents and for submitting the form. See the Safety page for details.

8. Project Presentation:

   All team members are required to attend their Regional Jamboree in October 2013. Each team will give a 20 minute presentation and present a poster of their project. Oral and poster presentations must be given by the students. Final pdf files of the posters must be submitted to iGEM HQ before or during the Jamboree weekend.

9. Positive Contribution:

   All participants are required to work hard to build positive contributions to society and have lots of fun!

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS FOR NEW TRACK TEAMS

1. Art and Design
2. Community Labs
3. Entrepreneurship
4. Measurement
5. Microfluidics
6. Policy & Practices
7. Software

1. Art and Design:

   • Art and Design teams, please see the Art and Design requirements page

2. Community Labs:

3. Entrepreneurship:

   In addition the the general requirements for all teams, Entrepreneurship teams are required to complete the following:

   • Lightning pitch:iGEM Entrepreneurship teams should prepare a lightening or elevator pitch. This should be a 3 minute summary of what you are trying to do, how you are doing it and why your audience should invest in you.
   • Business Plan Submission: Submissions are needed to create a valuable community and commons of ideas. Teams are required to document the inspiration and examples of their business models, and solutions to common problems early SB entrepreneurs will likely encounter. The team's submission must be documented on the iGEM Wiki, including but not limited to a public executive summary, elevator pitch (max 3 min) video, and public presentation (Slides). You may upload your video to Vimeo or similar video sharing site that allows embedding so you can share your video on your Wiki, but you must also provide a copy to iGEM HQ.
   • Confidentiality: iGEM does not take a position for or against intellectual property in Synthetic Biology. Note that the iGEM Entrepreneurship track does not require judges to sign non-disclosure agreements.
   • Parts: Entrepreneurship teams are not required to submit parts.

4. Measurement:

5. Microfluidics:

6. Policy & Practices:

7. Software:

   • Software teams please see the Software requirements page .
If your team is participating in the Software Division, you must make tools for use with standard BioBrick parts. Software tools must be available as open source projects on the iGEM servers. See more information on the Software Tools page