Team:DTU-Denmark/practices
Human Practices
Overview
The educational platform for 200 high schools in Denmark has now been launched!
Our human practice strategy is largely build upon a desire to reach beyond the iGEM community and spark an interest of synthetic biology in high school students in Denmark.
In Denmark, it is not possible for high school students to work with purification of plasmids due to controversial rules issued by the Danish Ministry of Education. As a consequence, very limited knowledge is passed unto the students about synthetic biology and many will only encounter this exciting field when attending university.
We want to change this!
The DTU iGEM team 2015 sketched out the first steps and initiated an exciting project that would allow high school students to work with BioBricks overcoming the Danish rules by using 3A assembly of the parts. The DTU BioBuilders team 2016 picked up where last years team let go. With a funding of 300.000 DKK (45.000 USD) from NEB for Biosensor kits and 300.000 DKK (45.000 USD) from Novozymes it was possible to send out kits to the Danish high schools allowing them to create their own customized Biosensors. Elaboration of the project is presented under “Biosensor” beneath.
Our other human practices relied on the same philosophy, namely spreading the word of synthetic biology through different events and social media. This lead to exciting outreaches which can all be explored below.
