While working on this year's iGEM project, we didn't only focus on completing our project, but also ensured that we fulfilled as many of the iGEM bronze, silver, and gold medal requirements as possible. Below we have listed the medal requirements and judging criteria that we believe we have fulfilled over the course of this project.

Bronze Medal Requirements

Register the team, have a great summer, and plan to have fun at the Regional Jamboree.

• We had our team registered by the start of summer, had a blast working on the project, and can't wait to go to Indianapolis!

Successfully complete and submit the iGEM 2011 Judging form.

• We were sure to complete this form on the iGEM website. Additionally, we added this page to our wiki to elaborate on the judging criteria that we believe we have fulfilled.

Create and share a Description of the team's project using the iGEM wiki and the team's parts using the Registry of Standard Biological Parts.

• Since the first day of summer, we have been working hard to make our wiki as easy to use and as informative as possible. For detailed information about our project, please visit the project page.
  Our team has also constructed many useful and unique parts over the summer. A complete list of new parts from this year is available.

Plan to present a Poster and Talk at the iGEM Jamboree.

• Just now, as we're finishing up the wiki, we are working on our poster and presentation. We'll have it all ready to go by the Jamboree!

Enter information detailing at least one new standard BioBrick Part or Device in the Registry of Standard Biological Parts. Including: primary nucleaic acid sequence , description of function , authorship, safety notes, acknowledgment of sources and references.

• We have constructed many new standard BioBrick parts this summer, all of which have a detailed description on their pages on the parts registry. Here is a link to all of the parts currently on the registry. Some of our favorite parts include our LacI mutants (K611021 through K611027) and our promoter/repressor pair characterization construct (K611018).

Submit DNA for at least one new BioBrick Part or Device to the Registry.

• The majority of our parts for this year are done being constructed and are in the proper backbone (pSB1C3). DNA for our characterization plasmids (K611009-K611018) has been shipped to the Registry. Many of our mutant promoters have just been ligated into pSB1C3 and will be prepared for shipping soon. Unfortunately, we still need to order special primers to PCR out many of our mutants from the characterization plasmids before we can ship them to the Registry. Because we probably will not have those primers before the first deadline, we will ship the remaining mutants in the characterization constructs. We plan to have all mutants isolated and sent to the Registry as soon as possible.

Silver Medal Requirements

Demonstrate that at least one new BioBrick Part or Device of your own design and construction works as expected; characterize the operation of your new part/device. Enter this information and other documentation on the part's 'Main Page' section of the Registry

• Our project was centered around the generation and characterization of mutant promoters and repressors. All of the characterization plasmids (K611009-K611014 and K611018) work as designed. These parts allow any user to insert their own promoter or repressor mutants, screen them for mutant activity, and characterize their behavior for various levels of induction. For more detailed descriptions of how the characterization constructs work, see the project page or the part pages on the Registry.

Gold Medal Requirements

Improve an existing BioBrick Part or Device and enter this information back on the Experience Page of the Registry.