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UK Meetup 2010
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We kicked off with a brief talk from each team about their projects, followed by a team-building exercise. Mindful of the degree of enjoyment and education generated by last year’s exercise in Edinburgh, we asked their instructors for advice – was the suggestion of using spaghetti and marshmallows to build a tower which would support an egg for 20 seconds some sort of boobytrap? It’s amazing how much mess eight teams can make with a couple of dozen packets of marshmallows... | We kicked off with a brief talk from each team about their projects, followed by a team-building exercise. Mindful of the degree of enjoyment and education generated by last year’s exercise in Edinburgh, we asked their instructors for advice – was the suggestion of using spaghetti and marshmallows to build a tower which would support an egg for 20 seconds some sort of boobytrap? It’s amazing how much mess eight teams can make with a couple of dozen packets of marshmallows... | ||
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UK iGEM get-together, Newcastle, 20th and 21st July, 2010
With eight enthusiastic UK iGEM teams attending, this year’s UK get-together was an excellent mix of science, speculation, tapas and beer. The teams attending were Aberdeen, Bristol, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Newcastle, Sheffield, St. Andrews (first-time iGEMers) and UCL.
We kicked off with a brief talk from each team about their projects, followed by a team-building exercise. Mindful of the degree of enjoyment and education generated by last year’s exercise in Edinburgh, we asked their instructors for advice – was the suggestion of using spaghetti and marshmallows to build a tower which would support an egg for 20 seconds some sort of boobytrap? It’s amazing how much mess eight teams can make with a couple of dozen packets of marshmallows...
There were some amazing designs:
