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iGEM Germany action day for synthetic biology
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Children painting contest illustrating synthetic biology
The idea behind the painting contest was to explain Synthetic Biology to kids in a rather simple way. It was explained that they can transfer a feature from one animal to another animal to create a completely new one. Then we had a short talk about our project and told them that we are doing exactly the same thing, but with smaller organisms and mostly features from plants. In the end there was a comparison between the features and a lego brick, so that it got clearer that really everything can be combined with everything with our competion. After that they got a lego brick as a present and started peinting. To have an impulsion the kids could win 10 tickets to the "Tierpark Hellabrunn", the zoo in Munich.
The winning pictures were:
