Difference between revisions of "Team:Virginia/iGEM Outreach"
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<p><span class="p">On July 22, 2016, the University of Maryland (UMaryland iGEM) hosted their second annual Mid-Atlantic | <p><span class="p">On July 22, 2016, the University of Maryland (UMaryland iGEM) hosted their second annual Mid-Atlantic | ||
| − | Mini-Jamboree. | + | Mini-Jamboree. Several teams from the East coast came together to present their progress, and learn from other iGEMmers.</span></p> |
| − | + | <p><span class="p">During this conference, our team was not only able to present our progress in | |
| − | <p><span class="p"> | + | a fifteen minute presentation, but also conducted an educational forum on the topic of biocontainment. Through this forum, we were able to teach teams about the need for and various methods of biocontainment, in addition to fielding questions about biocontainment as it related to their specific projects. The responses in the forum were extremely informative for our team in the generation of our iGEM-wide survey <a href = "https://2016.igem.org/Team:Virginia/Survey"/>survey</a> and addressing relevant concerns in our pamphlet. </span></p> |
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Revision as of 07:00, 18 October 2016
Our outreach to other iGEM teams included attending at a Mini Jamboree, conducting an iGEM-wide survey, producing a pamphlet on biocontainment for iGEM teams, and designing a widget to help teams choose a biocontainment method.
First, we needed to assess the biocontainment knowledge of iGEM teams. We wanted to find out what people knew, and more importantly didn’t know, about biocontainment. We accomplished this first on a small scale, by attending the Mid-Atlantic Mini Jamboree, hosted by the University of Maryland. We exchanged project ideas with other teams. We also hosted a biocontainment forum with the other attending teams. This forum inspired us to create electronic tools and expand our outreach to other teams. We created our online biocontainment surveyto gauge understanding of biocontainment across iGEM teams. Using the results of this survey, we developed a comprehensive pamphlet. We also created an interactive web widget that allows iGEM teams to customize biocontainment that fits their project. Do teams need something robust, something quick, or a method that fulfils other criteria? With our widget, they can find the perfect solution.
UMaryland Mini Jamboree
On July 22, 2016, the University of Maryland (UMaryland iGEM) hosted their second annual Mid-Atlantic Mini-Jamboree. Several teams from the East coast came together to present their progress, and learn from other iGEMmers.
During this conference, our team was not only able to present our progress in a fifteen minute presentation, but also conducted an educational forum on the topic of biocontainment. Through this forum, we were able to teach teams about the need for and various methods of biocontainment, in addition to fielding questions about biocontainment as it related to their specific projects. The responses in the forum were extremely informative for our team in the generation of our iGEM-wide survey survey and addressing relevant concerns in our pamphlet.
