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content.titleShort = "School presentations";  

content.titleLong = "School presentations";  

content.summary= "We gave lectures about synthetic biology and our project in schools in order to reach the younger people. ";  

content.text= " What do People already know about synthetic biology? How can we improve the knowledge about synthetic biology? </br> These were two of the basic questions we asked ourselves when we started brainstorming about our human practice part of the project. We decided to give lectures about synthetic biology and our project in schools in order to reach the younger people. During the summer semester we went to 8 schools nearby Bonn and Cologne.</br>We chose schools, because these pupils will possibly become the next generation of scientists one day. Our idea was to enthuse them about science and to clear up the bad image of science and research amongst some people. </br>Almost all classes we visited had a focus on natural sciences (e.g. biological or chemical advanced courses). But even more interesting were our visits to classes that had no natural scientific background. It was surprising for us that there were so many positive and thrilled comments and questions on this topic and our project. The pupils were so amazed about synthetic biology and its possibilities after the lecture that many of them took flyers with them or visited our homepage to play our mini-game and read more about our project. They were also excited about our comics. With the help of these lectures we reached one of our main goals of human practice: to explain people what synthetic biology is and in addition we could also promote our Wiki.</br></br>Below you can find the answers to a survey we handed out to the pupils after the lecture. </br> Most people of the audience had never heard about synthetic biology or iGEM before, but after our presentation many of them were excited about what they had learned. Most of them gave positive feedback about our presentations. </br> <https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2013/4/41/Bonn_Schule_1.jpg> </br> When we visited the school classes, we soon realized that it´s sometimes really hard to explain such complex contents in an easily understandable way. Especially in classes that do not have a focus on natural science, there was often not enough time to work out everything out in detail. Nevertheless the pupils were all very interested in what we told them and had the impression that they had learned somethin new.</br> <img src=https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2013/d/d0/Bonn_Schule_2.png> </br> But even if the time was limited we could elate people and we were very pleased to see that a remarkable part of the people could image to work with synthetic biology. </br> <img src=https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2013/2/2c/Bonn_Schule_3.png> </br> It was also delighting that we could clear up people’s doubts and fears about synthetic biology. We could show them that synthetic biology can be used for our benefit and also how high the risks really are.</br> <img src=https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2013/0/0e/Bonn_Schule_4.png> </br> <img src=https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2013/f/f7/Bonn_Schule_5.png> </br> We then developed another questionnaire with similar questions, but with the difference that we compared the answers before and after our presentation. The results showed again that people originally didn´t had never heard about the topic and iGEM, but after our explanation they knew.</br> <img src=https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2013/d/d5/Bonn_Schule_6.png> </br> <img src=https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2013/d/dc/Bonn_Schule_7.png> </br> Here we also asked people how they judge the risk-benefit ration of synthetic biology. If we compare their answers from before and after the presentation we see that after our presentation the number of critical opinions about the topic had decreased, as we could convince them that aside from possible risks there are very useful applications for synthetic biology and genetics. </br> <img src=https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2013/e/eb/Bonn_Schule_8.png> </br> When we compare the arguments people use against synthetic biology we see almost no change between before and after. So we didn’t influence the reasons why people might consider synthetic biology too dangerous or generally objectionable. </br> <img src=https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2013/2/2e/Bonn_Schule_9.png> </br> Many people told us that they were convinced that events like our lectures in schools are be the most effective way to spread awareness about topics like synthetic biology. </br> <img src=https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2013/4/4b/Bonn_Schule_10.png> </br>";