Project

Medal Criteria

Bronze

Register and attend

Register for iGEM, have a great summer, and attend the Giant Jamboree.

Deliverables

Meet all deliverables on the Requirements page (section 3).

• Team Wiki: Teams need to document their project on their Team Wiki page.
• Poster: Each team must present a poster of their project at the Giant Jamboree.
• Presentation: Each team has 20 minutes to present their project at the Giant Jamboree. The presentation must be given by a student.
• Project Attribution: Teams need to attribute all of the work done for their project correctly.
• Registry Part Pages: Teams must create and document Part pages on the Registry for the Parts they make.
• Sample Submission: Submit DNA samples of your new Parts to the Registry.
• Safety Forms
• Safety Check-in
• About Our Lab
• About Our Project
• Final Safety Form
• Judging Form

Attribution

Create a page on your team wiki with clear attribution of each aspect of your project. This page must clearly attribute 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.

Part/Contribution

Document at least one new standard BioBrick Part or Device central to your project and submit this part to the iGEM Registry (submissions must adhere to the iGEM Registry guidelines). You may also document a new application of a BioBrick part from a previous iGEM year, adding that documentation to the part main page.

Silver

Validated Part/Validated Contribution

Experimentally validate that at least one new BioBrick Part or Device of your own design and construction works as expected. Document the characterization of this part in the Main Page section of that Part’s/Device’s Registry entry. Submit this new part to the iGEM Parts Registry. This working part must be different from the part documented in bronze medal criterion #4.

Collaboration

Convince the judges you have helped any registered iGEM team from high school, a different track, another university, or another institution in a significant way by, for example, mentoring a new team, characterizing a part, debugging a construct, modeling/simulating their system or helping validate a software/hardware solution to a synbio problem.

Human Practices

iGEM projects involve important questions beyond the lab bench, for example relating to (but not limited to) ethics, sustainability, social justice, safety, security, and intellectual property rights. Demonstrate how your team has identified, investigated, and addressed one or more of these issues in the context of your project. Your activity could center around education, public engagement, public policy issues, public perception, or other activities (see the human practices hub for more information and examples of previous teams' exemplary work).

Gold

Integrated Human Practices

Expand on your silver medal activity by demonstrating how you have integrated the investigated issues into the design and/or execution of your project.

Improve a previous part or project

Improve the function OR characterization of an existing BioBrick Part or Device and enter this information in the Registry. Please see the Registry help page on how to document a contribution to an existing part. This part must NOT be from your 2016 part number range.

Proof of concept

Demonstrate a functional proof of concept of your project. Your proof of concept must consist of a BioBrick device; a single BioBrick part cannot constitute a proof of concept. (biological materials may not be taken outside the lab).

Demonstrate your work

Show your project working under real-world conditions. To achieve this criterion, you should demonstrate your whole system, or a functional proof of concept working under simulated conditions in the lab (biological materials may not be taken outside the lab).