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Anyway here's a picture of the teams '''before''' they went on a brain cell killing spree. | Anyway here's a picture of the teams '''before''' they went on a brain cell killing spree. | ||
| - | == SERIOUS BUSINESS == | + | == 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... | 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... | |
| - | iGEM Log | + | There were a clutch of teams which held over 3kg of weight but the winning team was "iGEM Log". |
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| + | On the [[16th July]] we had more formal discussion sessions and all the tems presented their work to date to the parallel kick-off meeting of the [http://www.synbiostandards.ac.uk UK Synthetic Biology Standards Network]. | ||
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| + | [[Image:Heads-down.jpg|400px|thumb|right|Down to the serious business of engineering]] | ||
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| + | [[Image:The-contenders.jpg|400px|thumb|left|Rogues gallery - be thankful those iGEMers are not going anywhere near bridges.]] | ||
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| + | [[Image:Bendy-bridge.jpg|400px|thumb|right|I wouldn't walk across this kind of bridge!]] | ||
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| + | [[Image:girders.jpg|400px|thumb|left|A better design but not the strongest.]] | ||
Revision as of 21:48, 30 July 2008
iGEM-UK Shindig, 15/16th July 2008
(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".
On the 16th July we had more formal discussion sessions and all the tems presented their work to date to the parallel kick-off meeting of the [http://www.synbiostandards.ac.uk UK Synthetic Biology Standards Network].
