Team:TU Munich/Human Practice/Information Day

Background Information

Text. On the Conference in Berlin held by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research all German iGEM Teams agreed on an Action Day, Date: 25th of August. The idea behind this day was to raise awareness of the competition and Syntethic Biology all over the country. Our team wrote a press release for all other teams. Explaining SynBio and the BioBrick principle. If you unsderstand German you can read it further down on this side. On the 25th we had an information booth in the city center of Munich, direchtly at the Karlsplatz. We shared this booth with the other Munich iGEM team, the LMU.

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: