Team:TEC-Costa Rica/Human Practice/Synbiothon/Evaluation Winners

SynBioThon 2016
Evaluation & Winners

The evaluation consisted of two different rounds.

First Round

During first round the 15 teams were divided in three groups (five teams per group) and one judge was assigned per group. Every team gave an exposition of five minutes while the respective judge scored from 1 to 10 the following aspects:

Presentation

Presentation

Impact

Impact and viability

Chassis

Chassis

Bioinformatic

Bioinformatic design

Once every judge listened the five teams that corresponded, they checked quickly the scores assigned and selected the two teams with highest scores. In this way, every judge selected two finalists, having a total of six teams for the second round:

AlumiGen3+

GastroLac

Hemoalgae

PAP aleve

MelAro

BetPro

Comment 3

Second Round

At the second round the six finalists were asked to give a presentation of 10 minutes, with two minutes extra for questions from the judges. In this round the four judges (including Silver, who qualified Benchling during the first round) listened the six presentations, but every judge evaluated a different aspect:

  • 30% - Bioinformatic design, by Silver Ceballos.

  • 30% - Technical viability, by Raúl Trejos.

  • 10% - Presentation, by the four judges.

  • 20% - Impact by Karla Valerín.

  • 10% - Chassis by Karol Jiménez.

The winners

iGEM TEC Costa Rica

Tecnológico de Costa Rica
Biotechnology Investigation Center
Cartago, Costa Rica
prostaltec@gmail.com

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