Team:Goettingen/outreach human practices

iGEM meets in München

SynBio Day

During the meet-up in München all the german iGEM Teams had the possibility to participate at Workshops. The participants at the Workshop agreed to a german wide SynBio Week, which was scheduled to the second week of August. Our team chose 15th of August as our SynBio Day. On the SynBio Day we planned to present our project to the broad public of our town, Göttingen. The idea behind a SynBio Day was to inform and try to work against prejudges regarding Synthetic Biology. These aims could be achieved by talking head to head with all kinds of people on public places or making informative posters addressing aspects of Synthetic Biology in order to reach people via social media. Furthermore we did a survey in order to get an idea about the german public opinion on Synthetic Biology.

On this SynBio Day from 10 AM to 5 PM, our team members talked to the citizens of Göttingen at an information booth, which was located at the iconic Gänseliesel in the city center. By showing lively and comic posters, we caught lots of attentions. People of different ages stopped by the booth, looking through all the poster and most of them would ask, what Synthetic Biology is and what our project is about. Our team members was pleasure to address all kinds of questions and also prepared cakes and muffins to thank for their attention and participation.

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GZMB Symposium 2014