Team:Hong Kong-CUHK/HP DIARY
From 2012.igem.org
Line 18: | Line 18: | ||
Before starting the workshop, we held a short talk about iGEM, Synthetic Biology and laboratory safety rules to ensure the safety of the participants. The first component of the workshop was a biosafety presentation accompanied by a demonstration on aseptic techniques. Through this, our team emphasized the precautionary measures necessary when working with microorganisms. The next component of the workshop comprised of experimental demonstrations of gel electrophoresis and spread-plate procedure to provide students with first-hand laboratory experience in order to develop a better understanding of the procedures and protocols taken in genetic engineering. After the workshop and talk, the students were taken on a tour of the CUHK Campus, particularly to our laboratory facilities.<br /> | Before starting the workshop, we held a short talk about iGEM, Synthetic Biology and laboratory safety rules to ensure the safety of the participants. The first component of the workshop was a biosafety presentation accompanied by a demonstration on aseptic techniques. Through this, our team emphasized the precautionary measures necessary when working with microorganisms. The next component of the workshop comprised of experimental demonstrations of gel electrophoresis and spread-plate procedure to provide students with first-hand laboratory experience in order to develop a better understanding of the procedures and protocols taken in genetic engineering. After the workshop and talk, the students were taken on a tour of the CUHK Campus, particularly to our laboratory facilities.<br /> | ||
<center><img border="0" width="300" height="323" src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2012/8/82/Diary4.png" style="float:left; margin:15px"/> </center><br /> | <center><img border="0" width="300" height="323" src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2012/8/82/Diary4.png" style="float:left; margin:15px"/> </center><br /> | ||
- | During all four events, we took the opportunity to conduct < | + | During all four events, we took the opportunity to conduct <a href="https://2012.igem.org/Hong_kong-CUHK/HP SURVEYS">surveys</a> [make this a link] to evaluate how much senior high school students understood about Synthetic Biology, before and after the presentations. <br /> |
<strong>“Dear diary, that’s it for this summer. :]”</strong></p> | <strong>“Dear diary, that’s it for this summer. :]”</strong></p> | ||
<p> </p> | <p> </p> |
Revision as of 11:46, 25 September 2012
Check out our FACEBOOK page! |
|
HUMAN PRACTICE - Diary Educational activities were designed for high school students who may be offered the opportunity to join iGEM sooner or later. The program includes a talk, 2 surveys, and an optional workshop to be conducted at our laboratory facilities. We firstly introduced iGEM and synthetic biology and provide some information about microorganisms to avoid any misunderstanding On June 27th, 4 team members visited a fellow iGEM team member’s high school alma mater, S.K.H. Lam Woo Memorial Secondary School, to give a talk to junior form Biology students. The presentation consisted of an introduction about iGEM, Synthetic Biology including the concept of BioBricks, and Hong Kong CUHK 2011 project, ChloriCoLight. We also presented past projects from the iGEM competition to illustrate the wide range of applications and benefits of Synthetic Biology, particularly in the environment and information processing. The aim of the talk was to provide students with a deeper understanding of this relatively new scientific field, arouse their interest in Synthetic Biology, and realize its potential in the future applications. We held a short Q&A session after the presentation, during which some students showed interest and raised questions regarding the safety issues of this scientific field. We then explained the necessary precautions we need to take to ensure the safety of Synthetic Biology projects.
Before starting the workshop, we held a short talk about iGEM, Synthetic Biology and laboratory safety rules to ensure the safety of the participants. The first component of the workshop was a biosafety presentation accompanied by a demonstration on aseptic techniques. Through this, our team emphasized the precautionary measures necessary when working with microorganisms. The next component of the workshop comprised of experimental demonstrations of gel electrophoresis and spread-plate procedure to provide students with first-hand laboratory experience in order to develop a better understanding of the procedures and protocols taken in genetic engineering. After the workshop and talk, the students were taken on a tour of the CUHK Campus, particularly to our laboratory facilities. During all four events, we took the opportunity to conduct surveys [make this a link] to evaluate how much senior high school students understood about Synthetic Biology, before and after the presentations. “Dear diary, that’s it for this summer. :]”
|
Home | Team | Project | Biobricks | Human Practice | Safety | Documentation | Acknowledgement
Address: Rm. 184, Science Centre, CUHK Copyright © 2012 Apycom jQuery Menus |