Medal Criteria

Bronze Criteria

Criterium	Description	Link
Competition Deliverables	We have delivered a project promotion video, the wiki, and the judging form!
Attribution	We want to thank all our supporters throughout our iGEM journey! On this page you can read about them and their contribution to our project.	Attributions
Contributions	We have contributed to future and present iGEM teams in the following ways: Coding with Biology webinar Spider Silk Repository Tools of Surveying and Quantitative Analysis in Human Practices Research ...and plenty of new parts!	Contribution
Project Description	We provided an overview of what lead us to our project idea, how we built upon our initial concept, and our set goals	Project Description

Silver Criteria

Criterium	Description	Link
Engineering Success	We successfully constructed and expressed major strain spider silk inserts and created a plasmid with 4 iterations of the insert. In our wet lab work, we show various iterations of the engineering cycle and show success in our work with a difficult protein.	Engineering Success
Human Practices	Since the beginning of our project, we consulted experts and stakeholders to help guide our project. Their help aided our final design and additional project components.	Human Practices
Collaboration	We have collaborated with other motivated iGEM teams in the following ways: "Coding with Biology" webinar Test Tube Podcast Synthetic Biology Coloring Book Travels of Plushy the Microbe European Meet-up in Hamburg Junior Jam in Münster Conference in Düsseldorf	Contribution
Proposed Implementation	We reflected on our results, our project's potential and incorporated stakeholder feedback to formulate possible implementations of our project	Proposed Implementation

Gold Criteria

Criterium	Description	Link
Education and Communication	We approached our comminication effort in multiple ways: we utilized social media, hosted webinars, communicated our ideas at live events and conferences and on podcasts. Through participation in coloring book collaborations, we participated in educational efforts of the younger generation.	Education and Communication
Integrated Human Practices	Our human practices work is multi-facetted and tries to encompass a variety of questions worth considering when planning and conducting a project in the field of synthetic biology. We gathered opinions of industry stakeholders to improve our project design. We gatheres expert opinions on the ethics of synthetic biology and analyzed opinions of the general public, later applying our insights to our project design and to our implementation and biosafety plans.	Human Practices
Partnership	We have partnered with a variety of iGEM teams throughout our project, and our human practices partnership with TU-Eindhoven is a great example. We helped each other throughout the year, both in a larger human practices effort, but also by giving each other app recommendations, tips and tricks for social media, and making a collaborative social media post series to communicate our results to a wider audience.	Partnership
Project Modeling	We modeled two aspects of our project: a model for potential upscaling of our Pichitecture material and a model for a potential expression of our biopolymers in Synechocystis directly instead of Pichia pastoris.On the one hand, we worked with assumptions based on literature, and on the other, we used machine learning in R to determine likelihood of protein expression.	Modeling
Proof of Concept	From the models, experiments, and human practices, we draw conclusions on where the potential of our project lies. We show that up-scaling can be done in a variety of strategies, that consideration biosafety is important, an that further experiments will be necessary to make more accurate predictions about Pichitecture's future.	Proof of Concept