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Consort Highschool iGEM Logo 11 students, and one supervisor make up the Consort iGEM team. We are located in Consort, Alberta and attend the local K-12 school that has 232 students overall, with around 70 people in the highschool. This is our very first year in iGEM, and being in the middle of no where, 3 and a half hours away from the nearest University, makes it extremely tough to get all the supplies we need when it comes to lab equipment. We not only took on the challenge of genetically engineering E.Coli, but we took on the challenges of building our very own lab from the ground up, design, HTML coding, and most importantly, synthetic biology. Before iGEM, we didn't even know there was such a thing as "Synthetic Biology", so we were completely oblivious to the concept of genetic engineering (and we still are). This has been a great experience for all of us, and we can not wait to participate in the coming years where we will hopefully know what we are doing by then.

Consort Highschool iGEM team

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Consort School Team

This is our first year in the competition. Our class heard about this competition in late November from our Biology teacher, Gerry Bourassa, when he returned from a Science Conference. The class started brainstorming ideas for our project right after we signed up in late January. After which we

Contents 1 Project 2 Notebook 3 Results/Conclusions 4 Safety 5 Attributions 6 Human Practices 7 Meet The Team 8 Fun Facts! 9 Sponsors

Project

Our focus during this project has been to construct E. Coli to detect Xylene, an aromatic-hydrocarbon. Our bacteria will do this by producing a protein named xylR, which in the presence of Xylene will produce a Green Florescent Protein.

Notebook

... This is going to take forever. Who is going to work on it?

Results/Conclusions

WHAT HAVE WE DONE?

Safety

What safety precautions did your team take? Did you take a safety training course? Were you supervised at all times in the lab?

Attributions

Who worked on what?

Human Practices

What impact does/will your project have on the public?

Meet The Team

Consort is a small town on the eastern side of Alberta, Canada. Each member of our team is in our Biology 30 course, and is striving for a new experience such as iGEM. This competition is enriching our education while having a fun time doing it. Here is a link if you would like to meet our team.

Fun Facts!

Our Team members have a variety of activities we do for fun. Some of them include sports- such as Basketball, Golf, and Hockey. Other things involve reading, learning and writing stories.

Team snack? Number of Team members with an occupation(s)?

Sponsors

Click Here to view all of the wonderful people who had helped fund us to make this all possible!