Team:HKU-Hong Kong/Human Practice

Hong Kong is generally regarded as a city for business and banking; science appeals less well to the general public despite the presence of internationally well-regarded tertiary institution. Elsewhere, biotechnology in HK remains in its infancy and synthetic biology has barely been heard of.

Under this context we decided to organize two initiatives – a HKU iGEM Open Day and a school workshop, with the following objectives: 1. Introduce synthetic biology to secondary school students. 2. Introduce the iGEM competition and the HKU iGEM team to secondary school students. 3. Provide lab sessions for the participants so they can have first-hand experience on some common molecular biology lab techniques 4. Raise participants’ interest in the biosciences 5. Provide a platform for participants to know more about undergraduate science in HKU