Lab Sessions

Last July our iGEM group carried out several lab sessions with children between twelve and fourteen years old.

The aim was to bring science closer to young people and awaken in them an interest in research. We tried to show them what life in the lab is like and teach what iGEM is about. But above all, our main objective was to make children feel like scientists for a day.

In order to introduce the activity, we prepared an entertaining presentation and gave them a protocol (both attached below), so children learned while they started taking some responsibility, although we assisted them during the activity.

The lab session consisted of two different parts. In the first one, children had to prepare LB medium and in the second one, we gave them Petri dishes with medium so they could collect samples from different sources.

They showed great interest and curiosity. This was definitely a fantastic experience for them, but also for us and we would doubtless organise this kind of event again!

Crowdfunding

This team did a crowdfunding to get a bigger budget to travel to Lyon to present our project and to cover our expenses and laboratory reagents.