Education

Summary

Education and Communication constitute one of the most important roles in our project as it not only allows us to share our project with the general public, but also enables others to learn more about the uncharted areas such as biochemistry and synthetic biology as well as molecular biology experiments, etc. In our work on human social practice, we have found that many people hold a biased perception of our project due to lack of enough knowledge about synthetic biology and biology. Therefore, we plan to focus on scientific promotion and develop high-quality educational materials.The main work we have done is listed as follows:

  1. Create virtual laboratory courses and prepare teaching manuals for teachers.
  2. Invite high school students and teachers to test our lab courses, and evaluate that to what extent they master what they have learned before and after the test.
  3. We publicized our project and the test result of our virtual lab offline so that the general public could interact with us better.
    4. We believe that our efforts to educate the public can benefit our community and beyond.

We have established educational materials of virtual laboratory and tested the target. For details, please refer to the Science Communication page

Online and offline promotion

In addition to conducting online scientific promotion activities, we conducted offline field outreach activities as well, delivered lectures on synthetic biology and molecular cloning experimental techniques at high schools.In the lecture, we shared some basic synthetic biology knowledge and principles and how to make bio-ink for 3D printing to solve the problem of wound repair via such technology.We were surprised to find that our iGEM experience lightened many students, who were attracted by the comprehensiveness and breakthrough of the competition.

In addition, to make it easier for the public to access our project and relevant information online, we created an Wechat account,the most commonly used social media platform, where we posted informative articles. For those who are interested in the iGEM competition or our project, we provide comprehensive articles centering on synthetic biology and our project working principles. Check the overview and latest updates on our social media platform listed below.