Team:CIDEB-UANL Mexico/HP-MultimediaDiffusion-SkypeConference

From 2013hs.igem.org

As part of our human practices we decided to talk to teams about their projects, how they were going, striking to getting advice from them and also see if we were able to help them in something. During this activity, we also had as a target talking about our project to check how people from other parts of the world could react to it and how big of an impact it could make outside our community and country. Our first Skype chat was with a German college team, Braunschweig, we chatted for about two hours, in which we discussed several aspects, and of course asked some other things, out of the subject. We talked about how their team was first made and how this year was their first time participating officially, also how they tried forming a team before, but it didn’t work out, so it had to be dissolved until this year; they also told us their idea for the project they will be presenting in September and more or less how it is thought to work out. We also asked them for recommendations over our wiki and some alternative programs we could use, because we needed some alternatives to try and make animations. But as our main goal, we talked to them about our project and how it was a bio insecticide that would be produced by bacteria, but was thought to be produced by the own plant, and how this could not be tested because of the amount of time in our hands, but that we were trying to make it work on bacteria at the time to be able to see how the product would work in real life, or have an estimate. We also told them about how we thought about this project, and that we based it on a local problem concerning potato crops that were on the city sides. The Braunschweig team seemed surprised at the idea, and said they liked it a lot, and they also said that the basis of the project, as it is being thought from a local problem, was very good and it had a good outreach and an actual thought use to it. From this first Skype chat, I think we learned how important it is to share ideas with others and have them give feed back to you, especially when they have a background on the subject, this way, communication is easier and the results from having these talks involving projects and how they can be bettered, are given a better view and review, and also new points of view on how it could turn out, or on how the project could be seen in different cultures and perspectives form other parts in the world. And I think this is what part of Human practices is about, having others be involved in your project and having and giving feedback to each other and using all the tools we have at our hand to make it possible and in the best way we can.