Events/Scotland meetup

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iGEM-UK Shindig, 15/16th July 2008

Taken at 5pm - should have seen them at 1am...

(Hosted at the University of Edinburgh)

All the UK iGEM teams were invited to a wee get-together in Edinburgh to share experiences, trials, tribulations, best-practise and a few beers! Or a few more than a few... whose idea was the vodka bar?

Matthieu - Bubble-gum flavour vodka is just wrong on so many levels, seriously.

Anyway here's a picture of the teams before they went on a brain cell killing spree.

THE SERIOUS BUSINESS 15th July

We kicked off with an ice-breaker team-builder where we mixed up folks from the 5 different institutions into 6 teams to compete against each other to build bridges made from popsicle sticks. The strongest bridge won a drinkable prize - my idea so I guess I should take some of the blame from the descent experienced that evening... It was all a bit of fun but it did have a underlying motivation: The teams should have learned the importance of doing proper design / brainstorming prior to building and that having a good skills mix within the team was important. NOT sure it ran exactly along those lines...

There were a clutch of teams which held over 3kg of weight but the winning team was "iGEM Log". 16th July

Down to the serious business of engineering
Rogues gallery - be thankful those iGEMers are not going anywhere near bridges.
I wouldn't walk across this kind of bridge!
A better design but not the strongest.