Team:METU HS Ankara/Attributions

General Support- Lab Support

Biology teacher in METU High School
Primary Instructor
She assisted us throughout the year; she lead the human practices and contacted people so that we could make it possible to reach our goals. She is our pathfinder and she is the one who brings all team members together. She assisted us on brainstorming while coming up with the project idea. She helps us building the content of our wiki and design the wiki page. She coached us with our presentation. Without her, this project wouldn’t come to life.

Graduate of METU Biology Department.
Advisor
He helped us on setting the backbone of our project. He assisted us on brainstorming and helped us a lot while coming up with the project idea. He explained us all the lab rules, protocols and the machines that we used for our experiments. He made sure we were acting accordingly to the safety rules. He assisted us anytime we were having difficulty with protocols or any lab work. He coached us with our presentation.

Student of METU Biology Department.
Advisor
She assisted us with lab work, helped us anytime we had difficulty in the lab. She helped us understanding lab rules and protocols. She made sure we obey the safety rules throughout the year. She is the one who assisted us on designing our wiki. She coached us with presentation.

Professor in METU Biology Department.
Secondary Instructor
She opened up her lab for us, we did culture on cancer cells by the supervision of her. She helped us with the experiments we did on cancer cells. She shared her wide knowledge about cancer with us. She and her articles guided us when we searched for a solution. She made it possible to conduct our experiments on cancer cells.

Post-doc in the METU Biology Department.
She assisted us on doing our lab work and she is the one we asked for advice when something is going wrong. She helped us with gene cloning protocols and co-culture experiments. She make it possible to conduct our experiments.

She helped us with the characterization for our K1658000 Cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase CAD1 part.

Dance with Cancer Association (Kanserle Dans Dernegi) is a foundation that educates people about cancer, creates awareness and encourage cancer prevention and early detection for all types of cancer. With their assistance we brought the giant colon model to our school to introduce colon structure to students and teachers and raise awareness about colorectal cancer. They also helped in the bake sale we’ve organised to raise money for their foundation.

Computer Engineer
He helped us with the design of our wiki and taught us how to code. He made it possible to transfer our ideas into computer. He helped us on preparing our animation and our poster. Also he is the one who powered our logo according to our design. He’s professional when it comes to computer work.

She is the managing director of METU Development Foundation Schools. She helped us by contributing money for our experiments.

He is a professor currently working in Hacettepe University Cancer Institute. His main areas of research interest are gastrointestinal cancers. He shared his knowledge about colorectal cancer and gave a chance for us to question our pathway.

He is an industrial design student in METU. He assisted us on designing and preparing our prototype. He gave advices about materials and machinery.

Students from METU High School
They helped us with our comic book. They asissted us to draw the characters, the setting, scan it to the computer.

Electrical and electronic engineer in METU
He helped us with the electrical devices that we have used in our prototype. He designed a system consisting of led lights in order to make our prototype more understandable and remarkable.