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Team:TU Delft/Education
From 2010.igem.org
Education
Synthetic biology is going to change the 21th century: from bacteria that clean your kitchen table to organisms that save your life by warning you for dangerous toxins!
But how can this be accomplished?
We believe that it is of great importance to educate the general public about synthetic biology in order to create an aware public instead of an unknowing and perhaps afraid public. This is why this year’s team collaborated with the Science Centre Delft, a science museum for children, to create a biotechnology room in which children are shown what biotechnology is all about. We also worked with students from computer sciences in order to develop a serious game about synthetic biology.
By participating in the Nanovideohunt competition we helped to teach young people about science on the small scale by showing them what we did with synthetic biology.
To reach even more children we went to the source of teaching and made a plan to educate teachers. Together with the Rathenau Institute (Dutch national research and debate institute on science and technology) we held workshop for high school teachers.
On top of this all we went to the biggest nerd-event in the Netherlands, Night of the Nerds @ NEMO (Amsterdam's science museum), because real geeks need to know all about synthetic biology!
