Team:Kyoto/human practice/Introduce HS Division

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Assist high school division

In order to assist future iGEMer ,we founded the department which is for iGEM HS division in september.
Komatsu and Nobeyama became point man of this project, then we started to accept question about iGEM, synthetic biology, how to experiment, and so on.

Actual activities

Actually we recept several questions from high school students and answered their questions.

Question1 「When should we begin to prepare for iGEM」

Answer1　「If you want to join iGEM, you should 」

Question2 「How many time do you spare your time for iGEM.」

Answer2 「The time depends on what we do. In this summer, we spared a lot of time.This is why if you want to sucess your project, you should concentrate on experiments from April to August.」

Question3 「iGEM looks difficult.Can we,beginners participate in iGEM.」

Answer3 「Certainly experiments are difficult. we recommend that you should take the lecture which is conducted by a biology teacher 」

Question4 「We don't have sufficient equipment, so what should we do? 」

Answer4 「Sorry there are no valid 」

Future work

According to questions and answers as previously described, there are a lot of problems we should solve.
In order to success our purpose, increasing the participants,we must clear up these things.
This is why we decide to set up project for iGEMer who is high school students.

We will try to do these things as below.
We teach how to conduct several experiments ,for example conduct transformation or electrophoresis.
Team iGEM Kyoto will work as a mediator like iGEM Jaopan which encourage them to contact each other.