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Revision as of 13:46, 8 October 2016

Manchester iGEM 2016

Outreach

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FREDsense

logo of British Science Week

British Science Week (BSW) is a celebration of science, technology, engineering and maths - Manchester was chosen as this year’s European City of Science, because of this, the University of Manchester held the British Science Week in order to inspire the next generation of scientists. As our first outreach activity, our team decided to take part by setting up a stall aimed at increasing the awareness of different methods in the production of chemicals. We taught the primary school children that scented compounds could be produced through conventional farming, synthetic biology (GM) and through synthetic chemistry. We also discussed the benefits and drawbacks of each method of production in order for the school pupils to make their own minds up about which method was preferable.

This event gave us some first hand experience with answering questions and the public reception related to synthetic biology and synthetic chemistry, in industrial production.

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picture for British Science Week 2

IBCarb

logo of IBCarb

We met up with a representative from IB carb, Dr.Doherty. We sat down and made a pitch about the project in order to get funding from IB Carb. We got some positive feedback from her. In terms of application for our patch she suggested that we could give them to bouncers or bar staff to measure the intoxication of consumers. This would help avoid staff giving customers alcohol which would put them over the limit to drink drive. She suggested writing a formal letter to IB carb asking for funding, this was critical as this letter we wrote did secure us funding for our project.

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Npronet

logo of Npronet

A few members of our team went to see the networking manager of NPronet, Ms Sarah Shephard. She was very forth coming of our project but advised us on getting our lab work done sooner due to the proof of concept element to our project. She also highlighted the issue of the Alcopatch becoming a game amongst young adults.

Manchester Entreprise

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Npronet

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