We have held some activities to
promote the iGEM competition and popularize the synthetic biology
, and at the same time, we urge more students to join iGEMers in the future.
Overview
Since March, GXU-China human practices group has prepared many details about HP, such as the activity planning and discussing, art designing, related material purchasing, venue request and other aspects. From 19:00 to 22:00 PM on June 29th, we held an offline information session in the Student Activity Center. GXU-China team members,
kids
and their
parents, teachers and students
from different colleges took part in this activity.
Propaganda poster
Content
We have designed a series of interesting
interactive sections
, such as fun jigsaw puzzles, magic coloring, Q&A, etc. Each activity was accompanied by gifts with our team characteristics. At the same time, we also made posters related to the iGEM competition and synthetic biology to prepare for the
introduction
and
presentation
.
Art designing
Java Yao, the leader of GXU-China, vividly conveyed the
concept of the iGEM competition
, expounded the development process of synthetic biology, and introduced our
team project
according to the poster and related information.
Through some
interactive games
like coloring, puzzle and Q&A, we truly enhanced their
we truly enhanced their interest about biology and they gained much common sense and basic knowledge of itinterest
about biology and they gained much
common sense
and
basic knowledge
of it. At the meantime, we made them complete the questionnaire about our project and receive much
useful suggestions
and
ideas
.
It is worth mentioning that at the end of the activity, many
lower grade children
at the scene were attracted by our activities and
participated
in our interactive links, some of them asked our team members about biology with
a curious attitude
. We explained it with patience and recommended some useful resource to them.We do believe this activity reach our proposal of
education
and
Human Practices
.
Achieve
This event not only achieved the pre-conceived purpose of promoting the iGEM
competition
and
synthetic biology
activities, but also realized the purpose of
education
and expanding the
influence
of our team.
Overview
On the occasion of the class of 2022, in order to enable
freshmen
from the College of Life Science and Technology of Guangxi University to have some preliminary understanding of synthetic biology, iGEM, and GXU-China team and stimulate their interest in biological research, we held
a Laboratory Opening Day
mainly for the freshmen of grade 2022 on September 17.
Content
Huixia Zheng, a member of GXU-China, introduced
synthetic biology, iGEM
and
GXU-China
team to the freshmen of grade 2022. During this period, we have mentioned the application field of synthetic biology. When it came to the medical application of synthetic biology, a freshman showed enough
interest
and hoped that he could make good use of
synthetic biology
in the future to treat currently
incurable diseases
.
We came to the laboratory and introduced the
instruments
commonly used in synthetic biology laboratories such as PCR instrument, electrophoresis apparatus and centrifuge, and gave them the
opportunity
to
try it
by themselves. At the same time, we asked them some questions, motivate them to think, and set up rewards. After walking into the laboratory, the freshmen were full of
curiosity
about the laboratory, and they were very
eager to operate
the instruments by themselves, which fully stimulated everyone's
interest
in biological research.
Next is the
demonstration and introduction
of the use of
microscope instruments
. Although they had some knowledge of the microscope in high school, they were limited to textbook knowledge.
Interesting experiment
is the last activity for freshmen after walking into the lab. In the lab, they finally really saw the colonies growing on a petri dish. We designed a simple experiment for them, and they completed every step carefully to achieve the expected effect of this experiment. In this part, the students personally experienced the difficulty of the experiment personally, but they all said that they were really happy to complete the experiment.
Achieve
The Laboratory Opening Day brought the freshmen from
theory to practice
, from which they realized the precision and detail of biological experiments, and felt the charm of cells and microorganisms. Some students did not like biological science as this major at first, but through this activity, they mentioned their
interest
in the field of life science, and wanted to make
a great difference
in this field in the future.
Overview
HainanU_China team, JLU_China team and GXU-China team jointly held an popularization of online science lecture on "Watching the World with the Beauty of Biology" at 8:30pm on September 26. The focus on this activity is the students from
10 classes of Hainan University of Foreign Studies
(hereinafter referred to as "Beiwai"), from Beijing University of Foreign Studies. Three teams explained
different knowledge
to students.
Content
First, Meiyan Liang , a member of HainanU_China, showed the
popularization of DNA molecular
motors to students. In August 2022, European scientists used DNA origami to build the first nanoscale electric motor built by a DNA chain. This advanced research results aroused the
curiosity
of the younger students, which made this popularization of online science lecture have a good start.
Besides, GXU-China leader Java Yao gave them a detailed popularization of
synthetic biology
, iGEM and GXU-China team. Java Yao started with the introduction of synthetic biology, leading up to the iGEM competition, attracting the attention of the younger students.Thus encouraged them to join the iGEMers big family in the future.
Finally, Shiyao Wang from JLU_China team introduced some
examples
of synthetic biology to the junior students, which bring them having a deeper understanding of synthetic biology. Shiyao Wang really built a synthetic biology system through design, experiment, summary, and then back to design, taking a paper as an example, telling students that an experiment is
not easy to succeed
, which makes them seemingly understand that scientific research need
continuous efforts
and
improvement
.
Achieve
After the activity, we received
positively feedback
from the teachers and students in Hainan University of Foreign Studies. The content of this popular science activity is novel and the students' interest also makes them have more
understanding of synthetic biology
.
Overview
In order to
better promote synthetic biology, promote the iGEM competition, improve the popularity of GXU-China
, promote the GXU-China entries and provide a platform for recruiting the next iGEMers, we established a wechat official account when the 2022 GXU-China team was established, and regularly published some articles on it. As we cooperate closely with other universities and publish tweets, more and more people pay attention to our wechat official account and learn a lost of useful knowledge from it.
Content
1.Share the daily work of the GXU-China team members.
2.Share the progress of the GXU-China project.
3.Publicize the events held by GXU-China.
4.
Promoting Synthetic biology, the iGEM competition.
Achieve
1. Got a lot of attention and likes from many college students.
2. Followers know more about the knowledge and application of synthetic biology through the understanding of our project.
3. Provides a platform for synthetic biology and social communication.
4. The purpose of
popularizing and spreading synthetic biology and improving the popularity of GXU-China
was achieved.
