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Team:UNITN-Trento/Outreach
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Outreach
From the lab to the classroom
On September 25, we have participated at the “3 giorni per la scuola” initiative organized by the Natural Sciences Museum of Trento. Every year, such initiative offer the opportunity to high school teachers to meet with researchers and science communicators and coming back to school with new ideas and teaching approaches aimed at stimulating their students for learning a bit more about science as what they can find in their textbooks. In this way we could contribute to diffuse the principles and applications of Synthetic Biology, which remain to date largely ignored by the citizenry.
An iGEM Corner at the MUSE
In the forthcoming months, we will collaborate at the development of an “iGEM corner” based on our project, at the new MUSE designed by worldwide famous architect Renzo Piano.
MUSE (acronym of MUseo delle ScienzE – Science Museum) is a latest concept centre for scientific culture diffusion. It will combine the traditional interest in natural history and research, common to all natural science institutions, with specific attention to ethical and social topics and to current issues, such as the environment and sustainable development. In addition to the iGEM corner, the MUSE will also host a series of permanent exhibits on the so-called “DNA gallery”, including interactive multimedia on the origin of life, recombinant DNA technology, synthetic biology, human population genetics, genomics, epidemiology, and other biotechnology-related topics.
Trento iGEM Team will be present at the Reasearcher's Night with an "iGEM Corner" on September 28th. In this occasion we will take the opportunity to share our project with the public and engage kids with the "Build Your Bacteria" game.
The Researcher's Night is an event sponsored by the European Community where researchers have the opportunity to promote science with the public in over 300 cities throughout Europe. If you want to know more about this event visit the UniTN hub for the night or the general European Community Reasearcher's Night website.
