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<p id="pp">BioMech is an educational synthetic biology board game, designed by the 2016 Exeter iGEM team for students aged 14-18. The concept of the board game was developed early on in the project, with the design informed by a year 10 work experience student. The board game was then tested with GCSE students from two schools, the feedback from which was used to tailor the game around the current knowledge of year 10 students. The intention is to introduce the concept of synthetic biology to a younger age group in a fun and engaging manner. In order to make the game widely accessible despite needing a physical copy BioMech has been uploaded to our wiki, and is able to download with printing instructions for free. We hope that BioMech will inspire students to further their own education independently given that there is currently very little taught on the topic prior to university level.</p> | <p id="pp">BioMech is an educational synthetic biology board game, designed by the 2016 Exeter iGEM team for students aged 14-18. The concept of the board game was developed early on in the project, with the design informed by a year 10 work experience student. The board game was then tested with GCSE students from two schools, the feedback from which was used to tailor the game around the current knowledge of year 10 students. The intention is to introduce the concept of synthetic biology to a younger age group in a fun and engaging manner. In order to make the game widely accessible despite needing a physical copy BioMech has been uploaded to our wiki, and is able to download with printing instructions for free. We hope that BioMech will inspire students to further their own education independently given that there is currently very little taught on the topic prior to university level.</p> | ||
| − | <p id="pp">You can read more about BioMech <a href="https://2016.igem.org/Team:Exeter/ | + | <p id="pp">You can read more about BioMech <a href="https://2016.igem.org/Team:Exeter/Engagement#section_1">here.</a></p> |
<h6>Synthetic Biology Module</h6> | <h6>Synthetic Biology Module</h6> | ||
<p id="pp">Continuing with the theme of responding to a lack of education in synthetic biology, we also looked at university level education. Due to the lack of any type of formal synthetic biology teaching here at the University of Exeter, we have created a second year synthetic biology module to implement in the Biosciences department. During the design process we managed to talk to multiple academics about their thoughts on the process of implementing new modules into the syllabus, and how it could be made more efficient in the future. It will be available for second year Biosciences and Natural Sciences students to take from September 2017.</p> | <p id="pp">Continuing with the theme of responding to a lack of education in synthetic biology, we also looked at university level education. Due to the lack of any type of formal synthetic biology teaching here at the University of Exeter, we have created a second year synthetic biology module to implement in the Biosciences department. During the design process we managed to talk to multiple academics about their thoughts on the process of implementing new modules into the syllabus, and how it could be made more efficient in the future. It will be available for second year Biosciences and Natural Sciences students to take from September 2017.</p> | ||
| − | <p id="pp">You can read more about the module <a href="https://2016.igem.org/Team:Exeter/ | + | <p id="pp">You can read more about the module <a href="https://2016.igem.org/Team:Exeter/Engagement#section_2">here.</a></p> |
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<h5>Public Perception</h5> | <h5>Public Perception</h5> | ||
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<p id="pp">The intention of ‘Desert Island… Science?’ is to humanise academics and experts to the public in light of the current anti-expert sentiment, and make the work of scientist more accessible and engaging to people not involved in the field. Whilst we recognise the perception of synthetic biology has improved greatly since several years ago, there is often still negativity and confusion associated with the general perception of the field, which is something we hope to negate by showing the positive impacts and implications of synthetic through our interviews.</p> | <p id="pp">The intention of ‘Desert Island… Science?’ is to humanise academics and experts to the public in light of the current anti-expert sentiment, and make the work of scientist more accessible and engaging to people not involved in the field. Whilst we recognise the perception of synthetic biology has improved greatly since several years ago, there is often still negativity and confusion associated with the general perception of the field, which is something we hope to negate by showing the positive impacts and implications of synthetic through our interviews.</p> | ||
| − | <p id="pp">You can read more about ‘Desert Island… Science?’ <a href="https://2016.igem.org/Team:Exeter/ | + | <p id="pp">You can read more about ‘Desert Island… Science?’ <a href="https://2016.igem.org/Team:Exeter/Engagement#section_3">here.</a></p> |
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<h5>Public Outreach</h5> | <h5>Public Outreach</h5> | ||
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<p id="pp">The Britain Needs Scientists fair was a much smaller fair we attended on 6th July 2016, aimed primarily at A Level students looking at doing a degree in a science. Our primary focus here was highlighting synthetic biology as a multi-disciplinary subject, and engage in more challenging conversations with interested students. Due to the name; synthetic biology an assumption is quickly made that it is heavily biology based, when in fact is contains aspect of all STEM subjects.</p> | <p id="pp">The Britain Needs Scientists fair was a much smaller fair we attended on 6th July 2016, aimed primarily at A Level students looking at doing a degree in a science. Our primary focus here was highlighting synthetic biology as a multi-disciplinary subject, and engage in more challenging conversations with interested students. Due to the name; synthetic biology an assumption is quickly made that it is heavily biology based, when in fact is contains aspect of all STEM subjects.</p> | ||
| − | <p id="pp">You can read more about our science fair visits <a href="https://2016.igem.org/Team:Exeter/ | + | <p id="pp">You can read more about our science fair visits <a href="https://2016.igem.org/Team:Exeter/Engagement#section_5">here.</a></p> |
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