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SILVER MEDAL REQUIREMENTS

Our team has tackled many important questions that extend outside of the lab this year. Many of these address ethics, safety and sustainability. Safety is a huge component in our project, not only in our participation in iGEM, but also in planning the implementation of our project in future years. For our achievements regarding safety:

• We visited local wastewater treatment facilities and spoke to individuals at a local water summit, to learn about the various types of systems within plants and the existing keratin waste removal methods. After becoming aware of the different systems, we planned our implementation of our construct based on the these systems.


• We plan to create an ethics review board, and one of the ways we have spread awareness about ethics and safety especially as a high school team, is by publishing a perspectives paper in an online student journal called Biotreks. We have also spread awareness about our project through countless community engagement through numerous presentations, showcases, and summits.


• We have also put in a lot of thought about the ethical implications of our project from both a student standpoint and a perspective of our faith. Being a Catholic high school we had to consider our project, and even just our participation in iGEM from different perspectives.