Team:SVCE CHENNAI/HP/Silver
Overview of Human Practices
Analysis
After deciding to work on prolonging the shelf life of milk, our human practices team knew that we had our work cut out. Before anything else it was important for us to realize the kind of impact milk spoilage had in our society and hence conducted
We also reached out to various experts and industries to get their perspective of our project and we took certain suggestions of theirs and integrated it into our project. To see how exactly we did that click here.
Public Engagement and Education Overview
Realizing how important it is to spread word about synthetic biology and iGEM, we reached out in different ways to
- We educated over 600 students in different schools and colleges about the advent of synthetic biology and the role iGEM plays in it.
- We setup a stall outside a super market located in the shopping district of Chennai and interacted over 300 individuals and explain our project to them.
- Along with our college we conducted a two day workshop on genetic engineering, where we provided 80 participants with hands on training and lecture sessions on synthetic biology.
- During OMICS'16, a national level biotech symposium conducted by our college we set up a stall outside our department and spoke to over 500 participants, recorded their perspective of synthetic biology and genetic engineering. Further we went on to talk to them about iGEM and its goals. We also handed out pamphlets during this occasion
- Our members also went to Vilapakkam , a village in Tamil Nadu. Over there at the village headquarters we conducted a social awareness camp and educated milk vendors about clean milking practices, and how that can help prevent contamination. We also distributed gloves , hand sanitizers and masks to them.
Entrepreneurship
We looked at various possible choices for the materials for the inner and outer membrane before selecting polycaprolactone for the inner membrane and dialysis tubing for the outer membrane. One of the most important aspects of any project is the cost. To help people get an idea of what the expected cost of one Lactoshield might be, we estimated its cost for four different possible sizes and prepared a business model canvas. To view the entrepreneurship page click here
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