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With so many creative and popular science museums located so close to our lab, our team knew that we wanted to work together with one of them as a way to reach a larger audience. Luckily for us, the California Academy of Sciences (located in San Francisco) was willing to give us a chance to present our projects to them, a meeting that resulted in a collaboration agreement! | With so many creative and popular science museums located so close to our lab, our team knew that we wanted to work together with one of them as a way to reach a larger audience. Luckily for us, the California Academy of Sciences (located in San Francisco) was willing to give us a chance to present our projects to them, a meeting that resulted in a collaboration agreement! | ||
| - | In the coming weeks, the Cal Academy will be posting a series of articles on their website that will serve to introduce readers to both our projects, and us as scientists and students. In addition, our team is one of the groups that has been invited to participate in the Academy's Brilliant! Science | + | In the coming weeks, the Cal Academy will be posting a series of articles on their website that will serve to introduce readers to both our projects, and us as scientists and students. In addition, our team is one of the groups that has been invited to participate in the Academy's [http://www.calacademy.org/brilliantscience/ Brilliant! Science Festival] on October 12 and 13. At the festival, we will be manning a table where visitors can stop by to learn more about our projects, iGEM, and synthetic biology in general, and we will also be giving an interactive talk as a part of the Academy's "Chat with a Scientist" series! The event lasts from 10 am-4pm both days, and we would love to see you there if you're interested in learning more about us and synthetic astrobiology! |
[[File:CalAcademy.jpg|600px|thumb|center|Members of the team pose with the Academy's T-Rex skeleton after a successful presentation to Academy representatives!]] | [[File:CalAcademy.jpg|600px|thumb|center|Members of the team pose with the Academy's T-Rex skeleton after a successful presentation to Academy representatives!]] | ||
Revision as of 22:43, 26 September 2013
Introduction
We're strong believers in the idea that science gets nowhere without support. As a result, when we weren't in lab this summer, you could often find us out and about in the community teaching anyone and everyone who would listen to us about synthetic biology! We harnessed the power of social media, gave presentations to everyone from children to adults, taught high schoolers some basic lab techniques, and collaborated with other iGEM teams to help spread awareness about the field of synthetic biology! Not to mention we started a podcast about synthetic biology and made and curated memes!
Scroll down to see pictures and more detailed descriptions of the Outreach events that we did this summer, and the ones that we have planned for the future! If you're as excited as we are about the future of synthetic biology, or just want to learn more, we'd love to have you stop by one of our future events! Feel free to contact our Outreach Coordinator, Ravali Reddy at ravreddy@stanford.edu to learn more about where you can meet up with us or see one of our upcoming presentations!
Peace, Love and Pipettes!
Collaborating with the California Academy of Sciences
With so many creative and popular science museums located so close to our lab, our team knew that we wanted to work together with one of them as a way to reach a larger audience. Luckily for us, the California Academy of Sciences (located in San Francisco) was willing to give us a chance to present our projects to them, a meeting that resulted in a collaboration agreement!
In the coming weeks, the Cal Academy will be posting a series of articles on their website that will serve to introduce readers to both our projects, and us as scientists and students. In addition, our team is one of the groups that has been invited to participate in the Academy's [http://www.calacademy.org/brilliantscience/ Brilliant! Science Festival] on October 12 and 13. At the festival, we will be manning a table where visitors can stop by to learn more about our projects, iGEM, and synthetic biology in general, and we will also be giving an interactive talk as a part of the Academy's "Chat with a Scientist" series! The event lasts from 10 am-4pm both days, and we would love to see you there if you're interested in learning more about us and synthetic astrobiology!
Collaborated with team UC Davis to characterize promoter strengths
Worked with Team Edinburgh to develop a B. subtilis integration vector for BioBricks
Instructed high school seniors in the basics of synthetic biology and how to build an iGEM team
Demonstrated synbio and iGEM to the public at the Bay Area and New York Maker Faires
Worked with the California Academy of Sciences in Synthetic Biology outreach; participation in outreach event scheduled for Oct. 12, 2013
Curated iGEM memes with additional social outreach via Instagram and Twitter
Produced iGEM podcast to discuss Synbio topics
Presented projects to NASA Ames Center Director S. Pete Worden
