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.

SERIOUS BUSINESS

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... So the teams where

iGEM Log Stick Bridge Golden Logic-Gate Bridge Banana Bridge Raft Bridge Another