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At SB5.0, many iGEM team members and their advisors met to discuss the prospects of collaborating on outreach and human practices projects and facilitating communication among iGEM teams. We hope to restructure the outreach component of iGEM to be more high-throughput. Instead of having individual teams work strenuously to push for publicity in local areas, designing and redesigning new surveys and activities each year, what if we could run Outreach like next-gen companies are running gene sequencing: '''''in massive parallel?''''' Of course, iGEM teams are a little different from DNA sequencing machines. To scale up our efforts, we need to incorporate more teams and get everyone working together. | At SB5.0, many iGEM team members and their advisors met to discuss the prospects of collaborating on outreach and human practices projects and facilitating communication among iGEM teams. '''We hope to restructure the outreach component of iGEM to be more high-throughput.''' Instead of having individual teams work strenuously to push for publicity in local areas, designing and redesigning new surveys and activities each year, what if we could run Outreach like next-gen companies are running gene sequencing: '''''in massive parallel?''''' Of course, iGEM teams are a little different from DNA sequencing machines. To scale up our efforts, we need to incorporate more teams and get everyone working together. | ||
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One of the key components of the iGEM competition each year is outreach and collaboration, both within the synthetic biology community as well as with the larger public. These efforts remind us that science does not happen in a vacuum, prodding us to take action in incorporating others into our research and conversation. In past years, many iGEM teams have reached out to their local communities in the form of surveys and conversation catalysts. Some teams have even made use of the media and received publicity for synthetic biology through articles and news reports. These are important but unfortunately isolated efforts; there has not been much coordination between teams, of either tools or publicity.
At SB5.0, many iGEM team members and their advisors met to discuss the prospects of collaborating on outreach and human practices projects and facilitating communication among iGEM teams. We hope to restructure the outreach component of iGEM to be more high-throughput. Instead of having individual teams work strenuously to push for publicity in local areas, designing and redesigning new surveys and activities each year, what if we could run Outreach like next-gen companies are running gene sequencing: in massive parallel? Of course, iGEM teams are a little different from DNA sequencing machines. To scale up our efforts, we need to incorporate more teams and get everyone working together.
This outreach and human practices collaboration was inspired by the following:
- "Avenues for Education About Synthetic Biology" workshop challenge: What is the most effective way to reach out to the community and educate them about synthetic biology and its applications? What would the ideal education plan look like?
- "Interacting with Society" panel: What can the synthetic biology community do to inform the public and thus increase acceptance of our work? How can we address public concerns about safety and ethics?
This website is one means by which we can collectively reach out to the global community.
Presented here are ideas for synthetic biology-inspired activities, course plans, and educational media that iGEM teams have shared with the goal of improving the scope and quality of synthetic biology outreach efforts. We invite you to use and adapt these ideas when sharing synthetic biology with your own community. In return, we ask that you make your own contribution by adding activities and lesson plans, suggesting improvements to ideas already listed, and sharing your outreach experiences.
