Team:AHUT-ZJU-China/Education
AHUT-ZJU-China
Education
We have held several activities, ranging from children to adults, from related factories to scholars in professional fields, from promoting biological knowledge to collaborating on projects.
HP—Creative Art Course for Primary School Students
AHUT-ZJU-China, whose project is about carbon dioxide this year. In 2020, with the increasing impact of the greenhouse effect on the global environment, we have to take how to efficiently deal with greenhouse gas CO2 as priority; because traditional CO2 collection technology is immature for its high energy consumption and low efficiency.
Our project simulates the protein molecule expressed by the mutation of carbonic anhydrase gene Loci, obtains the high thermal stability of carbonic anhydrase (CA) and imports it into Escherichia coli cells to achieve efficient CO2 collection.
In July , 2020, we are at the Yihe Art and Culture House, where we had several creative art classes with the children. During class, we studied biology with them and learned creative art courses. By encouraging children learn the signs of iGEM competition and explaining biological knowledge to them, especially the concepts of genes and synthetic biology, etc. We encouraged children to draw the iGEM logo and use painting to depict genes, synthetic biology, and iGEM competitions in their heart.
After learning the designed course, all the children accomplished their own works with the guidance of iGEM team members.
Our Human Practice—Creative Art Courses in Primary School Students has irreplaceable meanings, which both popularizes the iGEM competition to the public, and introduces the team AHUT-ZJU-China. Meanwhile, this activity better children’s preliminary understanding of their lives and the corresponding disciplines.
Publicity activities in kindergarten
During the summer vacation, after we had done our own protective work, AHUT-ZJU-China went to the kindergarten to tell the children and teachers about COVID-19 's seriousness and some biological knowledge. Let the children and teachers here understand what the virus is, how to prevent and control the virus, and what prevention and control measures should be taken in daily life. Then we told the kids about the carbon dioxide capture we made in iGEM this year. The impact of carbon dioxide can not be ignored, we told children that if the global temperature rises, then some low-altitude areas may be submerged, some animals will lose their homes. Although we did not tell the children what is very difficult. But it must be great for children to have a sense of protecting the environment and protecting the health of themselves and others.
