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| - | During Summer 2010, we | + | During Summer 2010, we partnered with five classes in the Summer@Brown high school program to provide guest lectures. Our audiences consisted of several dozen high schoolers who expressed interest in engineering an/or biotechnology. We introduced synthetic biology and some of our research, while also sharing about the iGEM competition and the premise of the BioBrick standardization movement. We received many insightful questions about our work and about life in general as a researcher. Many of these students later arranged to visit our lab, where we showed them some of the procedures we carried out and got to talk about our personal experiences with science and Brown University. We would like to thank Dean Marjorie Thompson, Jody Hall, Vince Siu, and former Brown iGEM alum Aaron Gliberman for allowing us this opportunity to connect with their students! |
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Revision as of 08:39, 25 October 2010
Outreach
Summer Workshops
During Summer 2010, we partnered with five classes in the Summer@Brown high school program to provide guest lectures. Our audiences consisted of several dozen high schoolers who expressed interest in engineering an/or biotechnology. We introduced synthetic biology and some of our research, while also sharing about the iGEM competition and the premise of the BioBrick standardization movement. We received many insightful questions about our work and about life in general as a researcher. Many of these students later arranged to visit our lab, where we showed them some of the procedures we carried out and got to talk about our personal experiences with science and Brown University. We would like to thank Dean Marjorie Thompson, Jody Hall, Vince Siu, and former Brown iGEM alum Aaron Gliberman for allowing us this opportunity to connect with their students!
Poster session
We presented 2 posters to the Providence and Brown community: one on the iGEM competition and the field of Synthetic Biology, and one on our iGEM projects this year.File:UTRA symposium What is Brown iGEM poster (2).pdf
The posters will also be on the online Virtual Symposium hosted on Brown's website. (LINK LINK LINK)
Activities Fair
Each fall, Brown holds an activities fair featuring student organizations on campus. Nearly the entire ~1500 person freshman class attends this fair, along with significant portions of the rest of the student body. We presented a poster on our project(s) and a poster on the entire iGEM program at this fair, talking to innumerable interested students about our research and the structure of iGEM. We have built an email list of over 70 interested students, who are being kept up to date with our progress and will be encouraged to apply for our iGEM team next year. By creating a community of students aware of and interested in the iGEM competition, we can keep Brown iGEM strong in the years to come!
