On July24th, we published an article on BJEA official Wechat account, receiving around 600 views and expanding our effectiveness.
For the structure of the article, we first present our promotion video to give a brief and straightforward explanation of our project. Then, we introduced iGEM and our team. After that, we explained our project more concretely. At last, our team leader and our primary PI shared their feelings and reflections.
For the main content, to demonstrate our project in a logical and comprehensive way, other than the promotion video, we use following answers according to two questions: “What are we researching on?” and “Why not use physical and chemical degradation methods?” What’s more, for important parts related to our project, we wrote in both Chinese and English.
For the design, we put our pictures in lab, in order to give the readers an immersed feeling and hook their interest in what we are working on. Also, we add some hand drawing to decorate.
We are looking forward to publishing further articles, to insist on bringing our project out of lab, publicizing our project, and telling our story to as many people as Wecan.
Our team presented our research topic towards students from grade 9 to grade 10 and teachers of different courses. This gave us the opportunity to introduce our research for iGEM, which is using mLCC constructed enzyme to degrade PET plastic, including introduction of the reason for doing our research, the solution to the issues that our team came up with, the specific experiment methods, and the expected outcomes. Based on the purpose of presenting our research topic, we were also able to use this opportunity to introduce, explain, and persuade audiences (junior students) that were not taught or never heard of bio-construction, and how it could benefit the society with further development with more specific details.
The school only gave limited amount of time to prepare our presentation. Our team members had learned and gradually perfected the ability of time management. This was a general attribution we put at the end of presentation.
Since we only had one week to organize and present. We had to maximize our workload to increase the work efficiency, and complete our research and preparation to present towards the school. The table shown below is a brief outline of the works the group had finished.
From this activity, our team were able to gradually decrease communication cost and increase working efficiency as a team. At the same time, throughout this short week, each and every member of the team was able to learn new skills and technologies of gene construction and techniques of scientific research.
Peter Zhang was able to learn how to use End Notes for document typeset and citations, he started to learn then ended up using the application without any barriers, and completed all the work related with End Notes in five days. At the same time, he also completed the iGEM promotion video with zero concept toward video editing in the beginning.
Eason Wang and Grace Zhang both had deeper understanding toward PET plastic, which includes the harm of it toward the environment and the necessity and importance to do the research on enzyme degradation of PET plastic.
Other than the juniors as our audiences, we also had teachers that taught different courses. The presentation we did in the end got feedback on how we should improve with techniques for presenting ourselves. We also got the feedback from teachers and students that we should present with more simplified and less academic words to make our presentation easier to understand for the audience.Those feedback were taken by our group members, and really benefited us on education activities towards audiences from distinct group and ages about more promotion on bio synthesis. Nonetheless, teachers for economics, chemistry, physics all expressed how they were interested with the idea of plasmid construction on enzyme and degrade plastic. The teachers were especially satisfied with how the idea of bio-degradation could stand out from the chemistry and physical decompose systems that are more commonly used nowadays.Our group luckily won the most scholar award of that week eventually.
