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Team:Arizona State/Outreach
From 2011.igem.org
Outreach and Collaborations
iGEM Outreach: http://openwetware.org/wiki/IGEM_Outreach
Exploring Synthetic Biology: High School Curriculum
A) Meeting One: (Tailored for Advanced Biology/Biotechnology classes)
[Ready-to-use Presentation: http://prezi.com/bqt1cvldirvh/exploring-synthetic-biology-part-1/]
- Explain our reason for coming in and talking to the class
- Introduce the team and iGEM competition
- Ask some questions to the class (What interests you about biology? If you could create an organism to do anything you want, what would you make? etc.)
- Introduction to Synthetic Biology
- What is synbio?
- Why is it a relatively new field?
- Biobricks – what they are and why they’re useful
- Other resources (Journals, Scitables, etc)
- Talk about the High School division of the iGEM competition
- Talk about creating a biotechnology journal club that could turn into an iGEM team
B) Meeting Two:
- Cornell University’s Ethics in SynBio Lesson Plan (found on the iGEM Outreach website)
- Add in Colbert Report Interview - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks as a multimedia aspect of the presentation [http://media.mtvnservices.com/player/prime/mediaplayerprime.1.9.2.swf?uri=mgid:cms:item:comedycentral.com:267542&type=normal&ref=None&geo=US&group=entertainment&&CONFIG_URL=http%3a%2f%2fmedia.mtvnservices.com%2fpmt%2fe1%2fplayers%2fmgid%3acms%3aitem%3acomedycentral.com%3a%2fconfig.xml%3furi%3dmgid%3acms%3aitem%3acomedycentral.com%3a267542%26type%3dnormal%26ref%3dNone%26geo%3dUS%26group%3dentertainment%26]
- Intro to the iGEM website, Parts Registry, and Open Wet Ware
- Talk about Lab Safety in SynBio
C) Meeting Three (after high school students cover genetics):
- Ask students what kind of techniques they’ve used in their school labs during class
- Introduction to Techniques in SynBio
- Lab demonstration
- GFP transformation, etc.
Outreach in Practice
Bioscience High School, our first high school partner and met with on August 12th, has started their own iGEM club!'
