Medal Criteria
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BRONZE MEDAL
- Team registration
- Complete Judging form
- Team Poster and a talk for the iGEM Jamboree ready
- The description of our project clearly attributes work done by the students and distinguish it from work done by others, including host labs, advisors, instructors, sponsors, professional website designers, artists, and commercial services.
- We built, characterized, and documented several new and existing BioBrick parts
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SILVER MEDAL
- We experimentally validate more than one new BioBrick Part or Device of our own design and construction works as expected.
- We submit this new part to the iGEM Parts Registry (submissions must adhere to the iGEM Registry guidelines)
- Help any registered iGEM team from another school or institution by, for example, characterizing a part, debugging a construct, or modeling or simulating their system.
- Our projects involve important questions beyond the bench, for example relating to (but not limited to) ethics, sustainability, social justice, safety, security, or intellectual property rights.We articulate several questions beyond team, and describe how your team considered the(se) question(s) within our project. Include attributions to all experts and stakeholders consulted
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GOLD MEDAL
- We improve the function OR characterization of an existing BioBrick Part or Device (created by another team or your own institution in a previous year), enter this information in the Registry. Please see the Registry help page on how to document a contribution to an existing part.
- We outlined and detailed a new approach to an issue of Human Practice in synthetic biology as it relates to our project, such as safety, security, ethics, or ownership, sharing, and innovation.