Team:Tuebingen/Activities/SynBioDay

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Synthetic Biology Day

The Synthetic Biology Day is an initiative by all German iGEM teams. It is a public event with the intention to explain and communicate the field of Synthetic Bilogy to the general public. It was held on August 25, 2012 in the following cities: Bielefeld, Darmstadt, Frankfurt, Freiburg, Göttingen, Marburg, München, Potsdam and Tübingen.

Event

townhall in background

We were present with an information stand located on the town square, Marktplatz in Tübingen. It is in the heart of the historic city and part of the large pedestrian zone and place of the beautiful townhall.

Our large pavillon was an eye-catcher. Several posters attracted the curiosity of the many people passing by.

We engaged many people in interesting conversation but people also came on their own initiative and took the possibility to ask us questions.

Additionally we designed a quiz with eight basic questions concering Synthetic Biology.

Photos

			taking the quiz

Material

All material was presented in German.

Posters are available as pdf documents:

synthetic biology as an engineering discipline view pdf

definition of terms and idea of synthetic biology in a few words view pdf

simple and interesting questions concerning genes, proteins, and food view pdf

Quiz:

first page of questions and answers
view pdf