Team:IISc Bangalore/Engagement
Our team delivered talks on biotechnology and our project to over 400 students across 3 cities. Subsequently, we conducted a survey to gauge the students' understanding of the talk and the importance of the problem addressed by our project. We presented a poster at the poster session by the institute's undergraduate science club. The audience consisted mainly of freshman year students; the director, dean, and several faculties turned up too. We participated in an Indian iGEM meet where we presented our idea in great detail to students and faculty of the host institution and other iGEMers. We delivered a presentation to top government officials in our state's department of biotechnology about our project. This was of importance as the "biotechnology parks" installed by the government are ill-equipped and our project could enable the use of these facilities for complex biotechnology applications. We received ~$9000 from them towards our project.
