Jr. High School Visits

One of the many ways to achieve a better diffusion of iGEM and Synthetic Biology is through students.

Our objective is to convey these topics with an accessible discourse and to evaluate this through surveys, which will also allow us to assess the impact of our expositions and talks in public and private junior high schools from the metro area of our city.

We gave a presentation/talk that addressed students in a clear, simple and concise way; we also performed some experimental demonstration, like banana DNA extraction and the simulation of an iGEM competition, where students had to propose a fictitious iGEM project with the information that we taught them, in order to make them understand the topic more profoundly.

The presentation was meant for approximately 50 min and consisted in a short introduction of basic concepts and examples of past iGEM projects.