Team:Freiburg/HumanPractices/Education

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For us working on iGEM is not only staying in a laboratory and trying to create the best bio brick ever it’s also a great opportunity to promote synthetic biology.
 
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The core contact point between science and the broad public is communication. The welfare of nascent scientific fields highly depends on the communication- and discussion-capacity of scientists as well as on the openness, knowledge and acceptance of society. Therefore, in addition to our practical wet lab work and theoretical philosophical analysis, we also wanted to introduce people of different ages to the novel field of synthetic biology. Since we believe that informing the public spreads understanding, promotes acceptance and avoids pre-judgement, we used most of our free time to communicate our work as ‘synthetic biologists’ particularly to children, high school students and undergraduates. Because we think disregarding the importance of appropriate ways of communication is definitely a counterproductive attitude, we tried to didactically match the content of our presentations to the age and background of the people we met. We also included our own thoughts about the metaphorical language of synthetic biology (see Philosophical Analysis [Hyperlink, XXX]) to give unbiased and clear information of synthetic biology, its products, possibilities and risks. Our educational presentation of synthetic biology has four sections:
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In that context we teach students the basic ideas of SynBio in order to direct and enhance their motivation to study life science.
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Within the visit we go into dialog with the students to clear things up concerning the ethnical dangers and economic chances of this big arising research area.
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The presentation of our project as well as the introduction to iGem in general is our third aim for the school visits.
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So maybe we met some future iGem winners.
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Lastly we want to thank all classes, those we visited and those we are going to visit, because it’s inspiring when next generation researches meet enthusiastic students.
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2. Educational outreach



The core contact point between science and the broad public is communication. The welfare of nascent scientific fields highly depends on the communication- and discussion-capacity of scientists as well as on the openness, knowledge and acceptance of society. Therefore, in addition to our practical wet lab work and theoretical philosophical analysis, we also wanted to introduce people of different ages to the novel field of synthetic biology. Since we believe that informing the public spreads understanding, promotes acceptance and avoids pre-judgement, we used most of our free time to communicate our work as ‘synthetic biologists’ particularly to children, high school students and undergraduates. Because we think disregarding the importance of appropriate ways of communication is definitely a counterproductive attitude, we tried to didactically match the content of our presentations to the age and background of the people we met. We also included our own thoughts about the metaphorical language of synthetic biology (see Philosophical Analysis [Hyperlink, XXX]) to give unbiased and clear information of synthetic biology, its products, possibilities and risks. Our educational presentation of synthetic biology has four sections:

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