Team:Heidelberg/Human Practices
Human Practice
Overview
Scientists don’t simply sit in the ivory tower of scientific research. Nowadays the role of a scientist is much more manifold. We see our role as scientists not only in delivering meaningful research results, but also in reaching people and educating them. The times of the pandemic showed that people are interested in learning about science. We took it as a chance and engaged with the public in many respects. In an online Science Slam we connected with other iGEM Teams from all over the world. Together we shared our projects in an interesting and exciting manner, so that even people without scientific background could understand it. To us it was also important to spread our enthusiasm about synthetic biology to students, because they are the next generation of scientists. Therefore we designed a course program introducing highschool students to the typical methods of a synthetic biologist. To make it as easy as possible for teachers to implement this program at their institution, we added a teacher version and accompanying material. To expand the public outreach we started our interview series. Experts from various fields shared their knowledge with us. Not only we learned a lot from them, but also people from all over the world, since we uploaded everything on our YouTube channel and Social Media.
