Team:Alberta/Tour/the kit

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With [[Team:Alberta/BioByte 2|Biobytes 2.0]] as the basis we have developed an educational toolkit for the high school classroom. We have put a great deal of thought and experimentation into the contents of the kit and tried to make it as self sufficient as possible.  We have packaged a number of tools with the kit that make it easy to get started. And we have built a large selection of parts using BioBytes and developed several experiments , some even based on past projects from various IGEM teams!
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==Bringing Synthetic Biology to the High School Classroom==
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[[Team:Alberta/biobyte2|BioBytes 2.0]] is the basis of GENOMIKON, an educational toolkit for the high school classroom. The kit contains all the equipment, media, reagents and BioBytes needed for use in a high school laboratory.
   
   
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As the GENOMIKON kit was created for the high school learning environment there were a number of design challenges that needed to be overcome. Specifically the high school lacks sterilization equipment and laboratory machinery. These issues are solved by sending all parts that must be sterile pre-sterilized. Along with these concerns there are also other considerations that needed to be addressed which can be found on our [[Team:Alberta/Kit|kit]] page.
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The [[Team:Alberta/Kit|GENOMIKON kit]] overcomes a number of design challenges. Specifically, the high school laboratory lacks sterilization equipment and other traditional laboratory equipment. The issue of sterility is solved by pre-sterilizing all parts of the kit. The need for expensive laboratory equipment has been eliminated by optimization of the [[Team:Alberta/biobyte2|BioBytes 2.0]] assembly method. A hotplate is the only supplementary piece of equipment required to complete all the experiments you find at [http://www.genomikon.ca GENOMIKON.ca].  
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Just add a hotplate to complete all the experiments you find at [http://www.genomikon.ca GENOMIKON.ca] and anything else you can dream up.
 
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Check out the kit below, it is GENOMIKON.
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Latest revision as of 23:30, 27 October 2010

TEAM ALBERTA

Bringing Synthetic Biology to the High School Classroom

BioBytes 2.0 is the basis of GENOMIKON, an educational toolkit for the high school classroom. The kit contains all the equipment, media, reagents and BioBytes needed for use in a high school laboratory.

The GENOMIKON kit overcomes a number of design challenges. Specifically, the high school laboratory lacks sterilization equipment and other traditional laboratory equipment. The issue of sterility is solved by pre-sterilizing all parts of the kit. The need for expensive laboratory equipment has been eliminated by optimization of the BioBytes 2.0 assembly method. A hotplate is the only supplementary piece of equipment required to complete all the experiments you find at [http://www.genomikon.ca GENOMIKON.ca].


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