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Team:Consort Alberta
From 2013hs.igem.org
Eleven students and two supervisors make up the Consort iGEM team. We are located in Consort, Alberta and attend the local K-12 school which has 232 students overall, with around 70 people in the high school. This is our very first year in iGEM and, being in the middle of nowhere, three and a half hours away from the nearest city with a bio chemistry lab. It has been challenging to get the supplies we need. We not only took on the challenge of genetically engineering E.Coli, but we took on the challenges of developing our very own biochemistry lab in the high school science lab, designing the bio brick, teaching ourselves HTML coding, and most importantly teaching our community about synthetic biology. The iGem project has been a great experience for all of us, and we cannot wait to participate in the coming years when we will have the equipment and the experience to focus more on the science than we were able to this year.
