We fo­cused on schools as part of our out­reach. To make it in­clu­sive, we vis­ited gov­ern­ment run as well as pri­vate schools.

Visit to Higher Secondary Govt. School

We vis­ited Higher Secondary School, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. Students were mainly un­der the age group of 12-14 years. The ma­jor­ity of the stu­dents be­longed to mar­gin­alised farm­ing com­mu­ni­ties. They thor­oughly en­joyed the work­shop and the ac­tiv­i­ties ev­i­dent from their en­thu­si­as­tic par­tic­i­pa­tion dur­ing the ses­sion. Finally, as a to­ken of our ap­pre­ci­a­tion, we dis­trib­uted choco­lates to them.

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Activity sheets filled in by the School Students

Visit to The Sanskaar Valley School, Bhopal, MP

For our sci­ence ed­u­ca­tion and com­mu­ni­ca­tion, we wrapped it up with one of the well-known schools in India. We made stu­dents aware of en­vi­ron­men­tal pol­lu­tion due to stub­ble burn­ing and non-biodegrad­able plas­tic.

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The Stubble Burning Awareness Quiz and The Synbio Quiz

Stubble Burning Awareness Quiz

  • The Quiz was con­ducted on Instagram on the 16th of August 2022.
  • The pur­pose of this quiz was to ed­u­cate peo­ple about the sever­ity of stub­ble burn­ing in our coun­try.
  • The ques­tions that were in the quiz are in this video.

The SynBio Quiz

  • The Quiz was con­ducted by iGEM IISER Bhopal in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the IISER Bhopal Quiz Club.
  • Mr Berty Ashley, a sci­en­tist, mu­si­cian, and quiz­mas­ter, was in­vited to con­duct the quiz.
  • It took place on the 8th of October, 2022 over Zoom.
  • The quiz saw the par­tic­i­pa­tion of 34 teams from 28 Indian in­sti­tutes.
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Synfinity- The iGEM IISER Bhopal Blog

As SynBio be­comes more promi­nent, every­one should un­der­stand it at what­ever depth suits them. With this thought, we started a blog called Synfinity on the ap­pli­ca­tions of syn­thetic bi­ol­ogy, e.g., food, plant-based ther­a­peu­tics, con­ser­va­tion, etc, along with aware­ness through so­cial me­dia.

The ar­ti­cles posted in the blog were:

  • SYNFINITY: The Infinite Applications of Synthetic Biology
  • The Chronicles of Gut Bacteria
  • The Subtle Art Of Thermophilic Bacteria
  • A Meat of Culture
  • Tiling-a key to evo­lu­tion?
  • SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES

Click here to view the blog

Social Media Awareness

We used our so­cial me­dia plat­forms to spread aware­ness about stub­ble burn­ing and bio­plas­tics.

Media Coverage

Our Project was fea­tured in lo­cal and na­tional Newspapers and News Channels: