We collaborated with this iGEM team from Greece through social media to participate in a commemoration event for World´s DNA Day.

We participated in translating to Spanish a SynBio comic made by the iGEM Patras team.

We did a podcast in collaboration with the iGEM Kuleuven team from Belgium, where we dived more profound into female figures in science that have influenced us.

In collaboration with iGEM teams Tec Monterrey CEM (Mexico), ASU (USA), and Patras (Greece), we participated in an international event about water bioremediation and the potential solutions of SynBio tools. We contributed by organizing one of the conferences of the event. We sought the valuable participation of Martin Gónzalez, Ph.D., a researcher whose work focuses on the sustainable use of lignocellulosic waste to produce biodegradable materials and environmental applications in the water treatment field.

We worked in collaboration with the Indian Institute of Science team in Bangalore to get feedback about our activities from people who come from different backgrounds than our own. Therefore, we sent them a summary of our educational content focused on water pollution and a survey for their team and community to answer. We received great feedback on the impact of our activity. On the other hand, we also helped them translate an educational document about Synthetic Biology into Spanish and spread it to our student community to give the IISc-Bangalore team feedback on the document.

We worked in collaboration with those teams to redact a letter communicating to iGEM the difficulties that LATAM teams faced during this year’s competition in hopes voicing our concerns and feedback helps improve next year’s competition and that LATAM teams that decide to participate in iGEM global don’t face the same problems as us. We hope that with this letter, iGEM will make the necessary adjustments so that more countries in Latin America will be motivated to participate and thus help to achieve the goal of inclusiveness that iGEM has set for itself.