NOTEBOOK

Team Korea_HS Meeting

Date: 04/03/2022
Event: 1st Whole Meeting (Virtual)
Agenda: The team was introduced to its members for the first time, the 2022 research idea by Professor Lee, and the iGEM competition logistics by student advisor Matthew Lee.

Date: 04/17/2022
Event: 2nd Whole Meeting (Virtual)
Agenda: The team further discussed logistics in terms of application and planning.

Date: 05/01/2022
Event: 3rd Whole Meeting (Virtual)
Agenda: The team was introduced to the TFAM-DNA complex and its role in architectural packaging for the stability of DNA by Professor Lee. In addition, the team elected its leaders in the general team, the Collaboration Team, and the Human Practices Team.

Date: 05/23/2022
Event: 4th Whole Meeting (Virtual)
Agenda: The team discussed the experimentation process of the project introduced by Professor Lee and met in subteams to discuss their aspirations for the competition.

Date: 06/05/2022
Event: 5th Whole Meeting (Virtual)
Agenda: The team planned the logistics of their wet and dry lab processes and met in subteams to start projects for the competition.

Date: 06/19/2022
Event: 6th Whole Meeting (Virtual)
Agenda: Professor Lee introduced methods for DNA fragmentation and completed a Progress Checkup.

Date: 07/03/2022
Event: 7th Whole Meeting (Virtual)
Agenda: Student Advisor Matthew Lee discussed the logistics of Special Awards teams and the attendance logistics for the Grand Jamboree.

Date: 07/16/2022
Event: 8th Whole Meeting (Virtual and In-Person)
Agenda: This meeting was carried out in person for all those who could attend while also providing a virtual link for those attending from home. Student advisor Matthew Lee introduced the iGEM cycle and deadlines, and in-person members completed the necessary tasks.

Date: 07/30/2022
Event: 9th Whole Meeting (In-Person)
Agenda: Members who could make it in person met in their subteams (Collaboration, Human Practices) and completed team projects, such as a public sticker poll and the creation of accessible DNA kits.

Date: 08/06/2022
Event: 10th Whole Meeting (Virtual)
Agenda: The team completed their Progress Checkup and continued discussing necessary deadlines and tasks.

Date: 08/21/2022
Event: 11th Whole Meeting (Virtual)
Agenda: Professor Lee discussed the results of the wet and dry labs with the team. In addition, subteams were able to meet and discuss the necessary elements of their deadlines.

Date: 09/03/2022
Event: 12th Whole Meeting (Virtual)
Agenda: Professor Lee continued the discussion from the last meeting’s results with the team, and the team continued to plan and complete their projects, meeting as necessary.

Date: 09/25/2022
Event: 13th Whole Meeting (Virtual)
Agenda: Professor Lee continued the discussion from the last meeting’s results with the team, and the team continued to plan and complete their projects, meeting as necessary.

Human Practice Meeting

Date: 06/01/2022
Event: 1st Human Practice Meeting
Agenda: Team Korea_HS has met the advisor for specific instructions catered toward Human Practices and Education/Communication

Date: 06/12/2022
Event: 2nd Human Practice Meeting
Agenda: Team Korea_HS look up for professional biologists or chemists to interview

Date:06/19/2022
Event: 3rd Human Practice Meeting
Agenda: Discuss possible educomm projects

Date: 06/28/2022
Event: 4th Human Practice Meeting
Agenda: Plan for the first offline team meeting, surveys, and pamphlet distributions

Date: 07/13/2022
Event: 5th Human Practice Meeting
Agenda: First in-person meeting. Create surveys and posters based on the plan we made previously.

Date: 07/18/2022
Event: 6th Human Practice Meeting
Agenda: Second in-person meeting. Go out to the streets and display the posters and surveys. In addition to that, distribute team brochures.

Date: 07/25/2022
Event: 7th Human Practice Meeting
Agenda: brainstorm about some of the possible ways to educate the general population on synthetic biology and TFAM.

Date: 08/01/2022
Event: Prepare an interview for Sungjun Yoon, a CEO of a synthetic biology company. Create a list of questions to ask related to the strengths and weaknesses of our project.

Date: 08/07/2022
Event: 9th Human Practice Meeting
Agenda: Prepare an interview for Yoseb Song, who is pursuing a postdoctoral degree at MIT. Prepare questions to ask related to our project, taking into consideration the answers we received from Sungjun Yoon.

Date: 08/14/2022
Event: 10th Human Practice Meeting
Agenda: Package tools that will be used in the Synthetic Biology Summer Camp (SBSC).

Date: 08/21/2022
Event: 11th Human Practice Meeting
Agenda: Prepare an interview for Jaehan Park; we created possible questions to ask. In addition to this, we brainstorm possible education/communication tools we can implement in our project.

Date: 09/03/2022
Event: 12th Human Practice Meeting
Agenda: Create a design for USB that will be distributed in middle and high schools and related to data security. Then create an online quiz regarding data security.

Date: 09/18/2022
Event: 13th Human Practice Meeting
Agenda: Create 5 videos for online courses, then create a quiz that corresponds with the videos.

Date: 09/25/2022
Event: 14th Human Practice Meeting
Agenda: The team finalized all the projects and worked on Wiki.

Interviews

Date: 08/01/2022
Event: Interview with Sungjun Yoon, the CEO of Fortuaga Bio
Agenda: The team listened to the presentation and the speech, asked questions about the presentations, shared the team’s presentations, and sought advice.

Date: 08/08/2022
Event: Interview with Yoseb Song, MIT postdoc
Agenda: The team listened to the presentation and the speech, asked questions about the presentations, shared the team’s presentations, and sought advice.

Date: 08/23/2022
Event: Interview with Jaehan Park, General Manager of data management at Samsung
Agenda: The team listened to the presentation and the speech, asked questions about the presentations, shared the team’s presentations, and sought advice.

Date: 09/27/2022
Event: Sungjun Lee, Member of SAP - a software company
Agenda: The team listened to the presentation and the speech, asked questions about the presentations, shared the team’s presentations, and sought advice.

Date: 09/30/2022
Event: Stew Pienaar, Learning Support instructor at American International School of Johannesburg (AISJ)
Agenda: The team listened to the presentation and the speech, asked questions about the presentations, shared the team’s presentations, and sought advice.

Date: 10/01/2022
Event: Teagsang Yoo, Worker at SK biopharmaceuticals
Agenda: The team listened to the presentation and the speech, asked questions about the presentations, shared the team’s presentations, and sought advice.

Education & Communication

Date: 07/30/2022
Event: Survey and Pamphlet Distribution
Agenda: The team created three physical surveys about PCR and Data Storage by DNA and distributed pamphlets to the public.

Date: 08/02/2022
Event: Education session
Agenda: The team started the meeting by giving a presentation about Data Storage by DNA and Synthetic Biology and continued the Education Session with word search, coloring books, and other interactive activities.

Date: 09/25/2022
Event: Educational Webinar
Agenda: The team showed the pre-made Education video and presented it to the webinar. The questions being asked were answered by the team after the presentation.

Date: 10/30/2022
Event: Synthetic Biology Summer Camp (SBSC)
Agenda: The team did Synthetic Biology Summer Camp virtually. The team showed the video tutorial and instructed live to help any who were in need. The team also sent out the packet to the destination address, which included all the material that was needed and the instruction sheet.

Collaboration Meetings

Date: 06/01/ 2022
Event: First official collaboration meeting
Agenda: The team discussed how many teams they would like to collaborate with and what projects they would like to do, and created a slideshow for the collaboration meeting.

Date: 06/10/2022
Event: 2nd official collaboration meeting
Agenda: Team finalized the final 10 iGEM teams that they wanted to collaborate with.

Date: 06/17/2022
Event: 3rd official collaboration meeting
Agenda: the team finished contacting all the teams that they finalized during the last meeting and discussed our partnership.

Date: 06/23/2022
Event: 1st Collaboration meeting with NU Kazakhstan
Agenda: The team shared their collaboration team meeting presentations and talked about the new project that they finalized at the last meeting.

Date:06/24/2022
Event: 4th official collaboration meeting
Agenda: Team started by recapping their first collaboration meeting with NU Kazakhstan and finalized the partnership teams.

Date: 07/ 02/ 2022
Event: 1st Collaboration meeting with Gems Taiwan
Agenda: Share our project through our presentation and offer Gems Taiwan the collaboration projects that we are working on.

Date: 07/08/ 2022
Event: 5th official collaboration meeting
Agenda: Recapped the last collaboration meeting with Gems Taiwan and finalized 2 direct projects and 5 indirect projects.

Date: 07/09/2022
Event: 1st Collaboration meeting with ASIJ Tokyo
Agenda: The team discussed each other's projects and their own collaboration projects.

Date: 7/10/2022
Event: 1st Collaboration meeting with ICT Mumbai
Agenda: The team introduced their projects and offered each other’s projects

Date:7/15/2022
Event: 6th official collaboration meeting
Agenda: The team started the meeting by recapping the ASIJ Tokyo and ICT Mumbai collaboration meeting. The team also discussed who will be making the Instagram posts from the Instagram Reel Project and the iGEMer’s Badge Project.

Date: 7/15/2022
Event: 1st Meeting with Thailand RIS
Agenda: Both teams did their presentations about their projects and their collaboration projects.

Date: 7/16/2022
Event: 1st Meeting with Seoul Korea
Agenda: Both teams shared their project progress and

Date: 7/17/2022
Event: 1st Meeting with Empire Gene
Agenda: Both teams introduced the progress of their projects and shared ideas for further collaboration in the future.

Date:7/22/2022
Event: 7th collaboration meeting
Agenda: The team recapped the 1st in-person meetings and prepared for the collaboration Wiki. The team also used the meeting to prepare for the upcoming collaboration meetings.

Date: 7/30/2022
Event: 2nd GEMS Taiwan Collaboration Meeting
Agenda: Both teams updated each other on the progress of their projects. GEMS Taiwan suggested that Korea_HS participate in their infographic translation project.

Date: 7/31/2022
Event: 2nd ICT Mumbai Collaboration Meeting
Agenda: Both ICT Mumbai and Korea_HS updated each other on their progress and discussed other collaboration ideas and projects.

Date: 8/4/2022
Event: 2nd ASIJ Tokyo Collaboration Meeting
Agenda: During the 2nd meeting, Korea_HS and ASIJ Tokyo further discussed plans for collaborations and projects.

Date: 8/9/2022
Event: 1st CCU iGEM Collaboration Meeting
Agenda: During Korea_HS’s first meeting with CCU iGEM, the two teams discussed their wet lab processes and their projects to promote a healthy diet.

Date: 8/12/2022
Event: 8th official collaboration meeting
Agenda: The team was busy figuring out which team could replace our previous partnership team since there were complexions. The team also discussed making changes in our collaboration projects and updating the wet lab progress on the google slide.

Date:8/19/2022
Event: 9th official collaboration meeting
Agenda: The teams discussed collaborating with two more iGEM 2022 teams and also worked on the description for the collab wiki.

Date: 8/23/2022
Event: 2nd collaboration and partnership meeting with Empire Gene
Agenda: In their second meeting with Empire Gene, Korea_HS discussed ideas of collaboration and began to reach out for a partnership with Empire Gene.

Date: 8/27/2022
Event: 1st collaboration meeting with Cambridge
Agenda: In the meeting with Cambridge University’s iGEM team, Cambridge invited Korea_HS to participate in their hosted event.

Date: 9/2/2022
Event: 10th official collaboration meeting
Agenda: The team worked on Wiki and contacted ASIJ for the Northeast Asia Joint Network, International High School Network.

Date: 9/4/2022
Event: 1st collaboration meeting with KCIS iGEM
Agenda: During the first collaboration meeting, KCIS iGEM and Korea_HS introduced their projects and their progress. Being a high school team, Korea_HS invited KCIS iGEM to join the upcoming International High School Network Conference.

Date: 9/5/2022
Event: 3rd collaboration and partnership meeting with Empire Gene
Agenda: In their third meeting, Korea_HS and Empire Gene continued discussing projects in order to maintain a meaningful partnership and created a resolution on which partnership projects to aid each other in.

Date:9/9/2022
Event:11th official collaboration meeting
Agenda: The team worked on the partnership projects and on the wiki.

Date:9/11/2022
Event: 3rd collaboration meeting with ICT Mumbai
Agenda: In their third meeting, ICT Mumbai assumed a mentor position on Korea_HS’s dry lab process and discussed direct collaboration initiatives the teams were working on.

Date: 9/16/2022
Event: 12th official collaboration meeting
Agenda: The team focused mainly on the wiki portion and worked on the conferences/ networks that needed to be reached out to the participants.

Date: 9/25/2022
Event: International HS Network
Agenda: During the International High School Network, all participating iGEM teams shared their projects and gave each other feedback on how to improve their projects for the upcoming Grand Jamboree. The feedback given to each other was helpful in order for the teams understand their strengths and weaknesses with their projects.

Date: 9/26/2022
Event: 4th collaboration and partnership meeting with Empire Gene
Agenda: During their fourth meeting, Empire Gene and Korea_HS presented their completed partnership assignments and discussed other available partnership opportunities.

SDG

Date: 6/14/2022
Event: 1st SDG meeting
Agenda: The team gathered up and did an idea briefing about SDG and picked the main goals that they wanted to pursue.

Date: 6/28/2022
Event: 2nd SDG meeting
Agenda: The team worked on the overall plan and planned for the main projects.

Date: 7/5/2022
Event: 3rd SDG meeting
Agenda: The team went over the medal criteria, overall progress checkup, and the storyline. The team also worked on project planning.

Date: 7/12/2022
Event: 4th SDG meeting
Agenda: The team worked on a timeline for finalizing the projects.

Date: 7/19/2022
Event: 5th SDG meeting
Agenda: The team finished with the public survey and posted it on social media platforms. The team also finished finalizing the project: public survey, interviews, short videos, pamphlets/ brochures, and SDG Networking conference.

Date: 7/26/2022
Event: 6th SDG meeting
Agenda: The team worked on their project and wiki.

Date: 8/2/2022
Event: 7th SDG meeting
Agenda: The team reviewed the survey results, two interview results, and projects.

Date: 8/9/2022
Event: 8th SDG meeting
Agenda: The team worked on their project and wiki.

Date: 8/16/2022
Event: 9th SDG meeting
Agenda: The team worked on their project and wiki.

Date: 8/23/2022
Event: 10th SDG meeting
Agenda: The team worked on their project and wiki.

Date: 8/30/2022
Event: 11th SDG meeting
Agenda: The team worked on their project and wiki.

Date: 9/6/2022
Event: 12th SDG meeting
Agenda: The team worked on their project and wiki.

Date: 9/13/2022
Event: 13th SDG meeting
Agenda: The team worked on their project and wiki.

Date: 9/17/2022
Event: SDG Networking Conference (D-1)
Agenda: The team will start the conference at 10 PM and end it by 12AM KST. The team focused more on learning and sharing presentations. The team went through the plan for this conference and allowed the participating speakers to talk and share their project presentations. The team also did menti meter after every presentation and allowed the participants to share feedback or questions.

Date: 9/18/2022
Event: SDG Networking Conference (D-2)
Agenda: The team continued the conference from SDG Networking Conference (D-1). This conference started at the same time as the previous conference. The team focused on more of the action part of the SDG. The team hosted the conference as planned, and all participants actively joined in making the solutions with the team.

Date: 9/27/2022
Event: 14th SDG meeting
Agenda: The team summarized the finished projects and worked on the SDG wiki.

Entrepreneurship

Date: 7/10/2022
Event: 1st Entrepreneurship meeting
Agenda: The team discussed the medal criteria, the overflow/ goal of the project, and product idea brainstorming.

Date: 7/13/2022
Event: 2nd Entrepreneurship meeting
Agenda: The team discussed the projects and specific deadlines for each project.

Date: 7/20/2022
Event: 3rd Entrepreneurship meeting
Agenda: The team brainstormed for the webinar, worked on the projects, worked on the investor interview, and worked on the Market/ Customer analysis survey.

Date: 7/27/2022
Event: 4th Entrepreneurship meeting
Agenda: The team worked on the survey and the interview questions, market analysis, and searched for possible interviewees.

Date: 8/3/2022
Event: 5th Entrepreneurship meeting
Agenda: The team worked on the Korea_ HS team’s strategy and education, interview information, additional events, and the business plan.

Date: 8/10/2022
Event: 6th Entrepreneurship meeting
Agenda: The team recap interviews with Yoseb Song and Seoung Jun Yoon. The team also worked on preparing the website.

Date: 8/17/2022
Event: 7th Entrepreneurship meeting
Agenda: The team worked on the website, online interview ( survey), and planning the conference.

Date: 8/24/2022
Event: 8th Entrepreneurship meeting
Agenda: The team worked on the new interview, general public survey, webpage, and webinar.

Date: 9/1/ 2022
Event: 9th Entrepreneurship meeting
Agenda: The team worked on the conference, mailing biologist, website content, and the general survey finalization and spreading the survey.

Date: 9/7/2022
Event: 10th Entrepreneurship meeting
Agenda: The team worked on finalization, webinar, and wiki.

Date: 9/14/ 2022
Event: 11th Entrepreneurship meeting
Agenda: The team worked on the finalization, webinar planning, and wiki.

Date: 9/25/2022
Event: Business & Technology Conference
Agenda: The team introduced the plan for the conference and who was presenting. The team presented the conference, and other speakers did so afterward. After each presentation, there were menti meters to give feedback and ask questions.

Inclusivity

Date: 6/12/2022
Event: 1st Inclusivity meeting
Agenda: The team worked on brainstorming the main topic.

Date: 6/25/2022
Event: 2nd Inclusivity meeting
Agenda: The team worked on finalizing the topic and discussed specifically the main topic.

Date: 7/2/2022
Event: 3rd Inclusivity meeting
Agenda: Started to research the interviewers and work on the interview questions. The team also started on the Inclusivity Webinar.

Date: 7/23/2022
Event: 4th Inclusivity meeting
Agenda: The team set up the timeline, distributed lines for the webinar script, started to finalize the webinar, discussed interview/reach-out opportunities

Date: 8/28/2022
Event: Inclusivity Webinar
Agenda: The team proceeded with the webinar as planned and allowed all the presenters to share their own inclusivity project. The team also gave feedback and questions after every presentation.