Team:AITM-Nepal/Human practise

Human Practice:

The first program conducted by the human practice team was in Little Angel’s College, Hattiban (Lalitpur) for the intermediate level that is +2 students .A huge number of students participated in program which was about 160.The program contained presentation on synthetic biology, its application and future plans in Nepal. Different section of program topic was presented by different member of the team. As it was the first program conducted by the team , they gave the general concept of the synthetic biology and iGEM project .During the program it was found that many of the students were not familiar to the subject biotechnology and synthetic biology. Team gave the overview of their project. Presentors were well known about their topic. Though there were different sub parts regarding synthetic biology during presentation, some of them were enthralling and impressive. It attracted the student very much. Mosty the section containing interactive pictures and cartoon images attracted the students and they paid more attention to the particular section comparatively to other section. Different examples related to different areas of synthetic biology were included so that it made the students to catch the information easily .The team were determined to gave their 100% effort to distribute the information regarding the synthetic biology and its different areas. During the questionnaire round ,most the student were shy to ask their question in front of the mass but some Students arose their questions regarding the scope of synthetic biology. Synthetic biology's application on agricultural aspect was thoroughly described by team members and understood by the students. Overall the presentation was good as it was a first human practice approach by the team but there were few problems which can be overlook for the presenters of the first presentation. Synthetic biology and research oriented program courses are not currently included in curriculum of Nepal .Thus it is recommended that this sort of program must be included in the curriculum so that student will gain knowledge and acquire habit of doing research work .