Awards

A guide to Our Team's Work.

Overview

At iGEM Team RUM-UPRM we strive to be better scientists and better people every day! This is why we consider ourselves a interdisciplinary team; because we engage in a wide range of activities to attain our objectives. We are proud to present our work. Click the hyperlinks to reach their respective award page!

Bronze Medal

Attributions: The Attributions page lists all of our project's participants, contributors, and advisors.

Project description: The Description page highlights our project's core idea, the problem, our inspiration, and our proposed solution.

Contribution: The Contributions page displays newly incorporated components as well as educational tactics that may be used by future iGEM teams.

Silver Medal

Engineering Success: This page contains the workflow that we used to conceptualize, design, and execute our project.

Collaborations: This page lists all of the collaborations we've had with other iGEM teams. During this cycle, we performed 7 collaborations and plan to host our own virtual meetup on October 21, 2022.

Human Practices: This page discusses how we determined that our work is beneficial to the world, taking into account safety concerns, our community's reaction to our project, professional meetings, and the involvement of other students in our project through education.

Proposed Implementation: On this page, we establish our proposed solution to the problem, as well as safety measures to consider and extra challenges related to the maintenance and supervision of our bioreactor.

Gold Medal

Integrated Human Practices: This page displays the individuals who have contributed to the enhancement of our project's purpose and design. We believe we have had a significant impact on stakeholders, who have heavily influenced our team's objectives and project development.

Proof of Concept: On this page, we offer our proposed proof of concept as well as the predicted results of each device.

Project Modeling: This page presents our mathematical model of RDX Biodegradation of the Anones Lagoon in the estimated span of several months.

Education & Communication: This page includes all of our initiatives during this year. Such activities include our Syn Bio 101 Summer Program, the Synthetic Biology Week, our Research Showcase, our High School Interns Program, Synthetic Biology Workshops and many more.

Hardware Award

Hardware Special Award: The bioreactors designed for this project were based on the ones used in industry, nonetheless it has components the team implemented to ensure optimal conditions for bacterial growth, and they were designed from scratch using CAD software. Moreover, an easy-to-follow manual to build the system is detailed for other teams to follow, thus embracing the idea of sharing knowledge.

Integrated Human Practices Award

Integrated Human Practices Special Award: This year, we concentrated on building strong relationships with stakeholders. Similarly, one of our top concerns was to meet the needs of the Vieques community. This was a significant contribution to our project approach because we were able to obtain their comments on our project and improve it for them. In addition to these measures, we also continued to work on a faster alternative and viable solution to this environmental problem.

Model Award

Modeling Special Award: Due to the lack of data on RDX decomposition specific to Vieques, the model relied on estimates of concentration in the lagoon. This allows for a close prediction of how long it will take to reduce RDX concentrations in the Anones Lagoon to EPA-set levels.

Education Award

Education Special Award: This year, we concentrated on offering workshops and activities regarding synthetic biology to students ranging from high school to undergraduate. It was critical for us to offer all opportunities to a wide range of people and make this science more accessible to others.

The repository used to create this website is available at gitlab.igem.org/2022/rum-uprm.