Team:ETH Zurich/human/outreach

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In order to make our wiki more accessible to the open public we decided on implementing.  
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All the past teams did an incredible jobs to bring Synthetic Biology to the public, involving more and more curious people to have their first contact with the subject. While reaching for the general public and talking to people outside the academia we became aware of a fundamental disconnect. Several of the people we met were captivated by the idea of synthetic biology and after talking with us about our project they decided to independently explore past IGEM works and ideas.  
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The main complain we registered was that they could understand the introduction pages and grasp the general idea of projects but often found challenging to move from the descriptive level to an understanding of the underlying mechanism without some external help. We think that at this stage as a community we are missing instruments that helps interested people to easily and independently explore and extend their knowledge.
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The Simplify buttons is our idea to create a constant and direct link between the popular science and the technical version of our work. Visitors from the general public can understand each piece of information in its descriptive version and then check how that specific element works more in detail. This should mitigate the divide between an inspiring introduction and a sudden high wall of complex biology or mathematical modeling.
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We are deeply interested in starting a discussion with people with deeper expertise in scientific writing and popularization in order to improve this approach and diffuse it among other team making easier for curious to explore the wide and inspiring collection of IGEM projects
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