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Revision as of 22:46, 19 October 2016
Public Engagement
Going the extra Mile out of the Lab
Introduction
Bringing synthetic biology and the iGEM projects in contact with the public is a relevant part of the iGEM competition. In order to reach new interested groups, we were dedicated in many activities to spread our public outreach. Among other things we co-hosted the CeBiTec pupils academy, published a german homepage, presented our project at a scientific symposium and the public ceremony of NRW day 2016, designed a postcard regarding synthetic biology and had close communication with media and press, including a successful crowdfunding campaign.
Our Projects
When communicating our project to a non scientific audience we discovered early in our project that not only our Evobody project but also synthetic biology are difficult to explain. The publicity seems to be biased towards genetical engineering and additionally our scientific approach is hard to understand. To overcome these difficulties we started several projects to improve our
communication and presentation skills and created tools to simplify the dialogue:
We experienced first misunderstandings when we had the chance to present our topic to the scientific staff of our institute in April. These general communication issues appeared once again when we had the chance to be instructors at the pupils academy in june. During guidance through genetic experiments we were able to talk about our project, iGEM and synthetical biology in general. Although the attendees belong to a very educated peer group of young people we had major problems understanding each other.
To further evaluate these problems we established dialogue with Florian Helfer
We experienced first misunderstandings when we had the chance to present our topic to the scientific staff of our institute in April. These general communication issues appeared once again when we had the chance to be instructors at the pupils academy in june. During guidance through genetic experiments we were able to talk about our project, iGEM and synthetical biology in general. Although the attendees belong to a very educated peer group of young people we had major problems understanding each other.
To further evaluate these problems we established dialogue with Florian Helfer
Providing waffles and information
At June 1st we had an information point in the Bielefeld University and sold delicious waffles! Lots of people came around to talk with us about our project and about iGEM and of course for eating waffles. Thereby we had the chance to give students and graduates of all kinds of courses an insight into synthetic biology.
If you missed us and our excellent waffles, don’t be sad. Come and visit us on our home coming stand on November 21st at the Bielefeld University main hall!
