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HUMAN PRACTICES SUMMARY

Human practices and ethics is a very general topic which our team has talked about extensively in an attempt to cover as many aspects as possible. Our main focus for our project was outreach and community engagement which fits well with our goal to find a solution to hair clogging in wastewater. This also includes a water summit we attended, hosted by Inside Education, called Navig8. The event gave us a much deeper understanding of what happens to the water once it leaves the treatment center, helping us plan our implementation. Being a catholic school we reached out to our local parish and spoke with Father Wilbert about the complications synthetic biology might have with our faith. Throughout the year we participated in many collaborations including cooperations with University of Lethbridge and an iGEM team from Taiwan. We are also super excited about our two papers we published in Biotreks, a peer-reviewed startup journal. Closely tied to outreach, we collaborated with and allowed two university iGEM teams to interview a few of our members; they were the iGEM team at Rice University and a Swiss university team out of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) that runs a website featuring iGEM news and interviews from iGEM teams and their members across the world. As an education portion we are participating in synthetic biology 15 for high school credits. Our major project for the course is to create an info-graphic that teaches new students to iGEM about the parts of a biobrick. Lastly, we have an ethics team tasked with creating a rubric to analyze a project’s ethical, moral, and rational complications helping to dictate what should and should not be accepted in society. Overall, in the 2016 season we feel that the extensive work we did on human practices was very successful and made a large contribution to our project.