Team:CIDEB-UANL Mexico/HP-Cideb-Newies

Invitation to Newbies

Just like we did last year, students from second semester were invited to an informational meeting about iGEM, and how they could have the chance of being part of the team CIDEB 2014. Since we are having our graduation next month, and the current team of 2013 is leaving after this year’s competition, we have the responsibility of recruiting students that’ll join next year’s team; to keep the project alive and going. But most students at CIDEB had no idea that iGEM even existed, so we had to tell them.

We arranged a meeting where our instructor, one of the few who contributed to the implementation of the project iGEM in our school, Heber Torres, would inform a gathered group the basic things about the project and what they needed to do to get into the team. For this, we went all around the school telling people about the meeting, using posters and ads. We went to each of the classrooms and stood at the front door of the school; we told groups of people, individual people and even teachers, so that they could tell their students.

Thanks to this, even if only a few people were actually interested in synthetic biology, at least everyone would’ve heard the word “iGEM“ at some point. People would be curious, assist the meeting, and then decide if it was something they’d like to be part of or not. And they’d at least know what iGEM was about, or what it had to do with.

Nevertheless, the principal objective was to recruit next year’s team, hoping they’ll come with newer and better ideas for the 2014 competition.