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UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY CAMPUS EVENTS

CAMPUS FAIR: JUNE 6TH

The University of Calgary Campus Fair was one of the first campus events we participated in. Campus Fair is an annual event held for children to explore science, media, engineering, and the arts through fun activities. The goal is to inspire them to think of the possibilities in the future, and showcase the different programs and faculties present at the U of C.

At Campus Fair, our team had a booth set up with fun crafts and contests. We made craft kids for children to make their own bacteria art, and ran pipetting competitions. While this was a lot of fun for the kids present, we also wanted to spread the word about iGEM and our project. Along with these activities, we set up the iGEM poster from last year's team, prompting questions about what iGEM was. These came from parents, older siblings, volunteers, and other faculty members that were present at the fair. Thus, we were able to speak about synthetic biology and our iGEM project to many individuals.

For more details and pictures of this event, click HERE for our news article.

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH PROGRAM (USRP) RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM: SEPTEMBER 23RD

On September 23rd, the University of Calgary iGEM team had another chance to display our work at the Markin Undergraduate Student Research program symposium (USRP). This symposium features summer undergraduate research projects from a variety of faculties at the University. We participated in the poster session, submitting two of our posters. This was a great chance to showcase our work to other students and faculty at the university, working on establishing more of a campus-wide presence for iGEM. We set up a demonstration of Second Life and gave out handouts to people on the four aspects of our project. We had a lot of fun talking about our work and it gave us some practice explaining our project to people outside the field, with no prior knowledge of iGEM or of synthetic biology. This was the first of a few research symposiums that the University of Calgary iGEM team will be participating in over the next couple of weeks. Upcoming symposiums include the BHSC Symposium in October and the University of Calgary Student Union Research Symposium in November.