ICII is an event organized by the members of the participating teams in China. Last year NAU-CHINA hosted ICII 2021 and this event was a great success with the active participation of university teams from all over the country. ICII successfully became a platform for excellent teams to communicate with each other. With the help of this platform, we not only promoted our own projects, but also learned the strengths of other teams:
To maintain the collaborative theme of last year, in 2022, NAU-CHINA decided to continue to host ICII. The purpose of this event is to appeal more teams in China to participate in iGEM, so as to make iGEM known to more colleges in China. We mainly held three events: online popular science training, poster brochure, and urban publicity videos.
Popular Science Training
After we gathered other iGEM teams, we decided to use the power of online social platforms to learn about synthetic biology in consideration of the long distance between the provinces where the schools are located. The teams who requested to participate were broadcast live online on the Bilibili platform to give lectures related to synthetic biology and their project. It is carried out in the form of a unit for two days and finally summarized in this season's ICII public welfare science.
All team members racked their brains together to obtain various forms of scientific popularization. This not only opened a window to friends who were interested in synthetic biology, but also attracted more friends to get to know the charm and potential advantages about iGEM.
Figure 1. Training lectures for selected teams.
Poster & Brochure
In 2022, we created a publicity brochure to show the theme of each team's online lectures, in order to realize a portable publicity. We requested all teams to make promotional brochures to display their topics online. These brochures had also been shared with the students by many teams in the school promotion activities, which could enable students who were interested in iGEM to learn about details, and then promote it to their friends.
In addition, we also designed ICII posters to demonstrate each team's competition project this year.
Figure 2. Poster of ICII
Figure 3. Brochure of ICII
Urban Publicity Videos
This year, we attempted to reach out to a wider range of regions through filming city promotions by the participating teams in varieties of provinces and cities. We specially invited each team to employ different campus beauties to expand the influence of iGEM to ordinary people and draw their attention to the projects related to synthetic biology.
At the end of this activity, we, along with BIT-China and ZJU-China, formed a summary video about ICII in 2022. The video was released on different major social platforms and was clicked and praised highly by the viewers. They commented that the video was like a far-off journey, and most of those audience were blown away by the sights of major cities and the thriving vitality of synthetic biology within those cities.
BIT-China , ZJU-China , Tianjin , SCU-China, , Fudan , OUC-China , CSU_CHINA , WHU-China , LZU-CHINA , CPU_CHINA and NEFU_China all participated in ICII 2022, and we are looking forward that more teams will join us in this event next year!
