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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.
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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.


CommunityBricks is an attempt to change the way that we do outreach and address human practices at iGEM. By creating an open source community of lesson plans and activity protocols, we hope to stimulate deeper, more engaging experiences for both sides of the exchange.  Listed on this site, you will find tools to present synthetic biology to those who have never heard of it, plans and presentations to give stimulating recruitment talks at high schools, and thoughtful considerations of bioethics and the roles it should play in our future.


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?


We are tired of giving friends five-minute surveys and calling it “Outreach.” We hope that you are, too.  Let's set a new standard for how we do outreach, something that we will be proud of. The caliber of lab work presented at the Jamboree is a source of great pride for advisors and teams; let us seek to match that same quality in every field we do.


This website is one means by which we can collectively reach out to the global community. 


 
Granted, building a lesson plan or organizing an activity is more work than just typing up a survey, but harnessing community support for synthetic biology may actually make our lives easier in the long run.  So, as you start thinking about your team's outreach plans, take a few minutes to peruse the growing content on this site to see what you can easily do. Try it out, and tell everyone else how it goes.  And if you have ideas of your own, post your stellar outreach plans and share them with everyone!
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.

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CommunityBricks is an attempt to change the way that we do outreach and address human practices at iGEM. By creating an open source community of lesson plans and activity protocols, we hope to stimulate deeper, more engaging experiences for both sides of the exchange. Listed on this site, you will find tools to present synthetic biology to those who have never heard of it, plans and presentations to give stimulating recruitment talks at high schools, and thoughtful considerations of bioethics and the roles it should play in our future.


We are tired of giving friends five-minute surveys and calling it “Outreach.” We hope that you are, too. Let's set a new standard for how we do outreach, something that we will be proud of. The caliber of lab work presented at the Jamboree is a source of great pride for advisors and teams; let us seek to match that same quality in every field we do.


Granted, building a lesson plan or organizing an activity is more work than just typing up a survey, but harnessing community support for synthetic biology may actually make our lives easier in the long run. So, as you start thinking about your team's outreach plans, take a few minutes to peruse the growing content on this site to see what you can easily do. Try it out, and tell everyone else how it goes. And if you have ideas of your own, post your stellar outreach plans and share them with everyone!

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