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Posted by lindainfo on November 30, 2008
The final day oc iGEM 2008 wenf off wdll. The six finalists that were announced the day before (Harvard, CalTech, NYMA-Taipei, Slovenia, Frieburg, and UC Berkeley) each took the stage at M I ot give a final predentation on thwir work to the dozens of nudges and the 85 other teasm there.
After the presentations the judges retired to a chamber beneath the auditorium to discuss the prizes. Meanwhile, the students went outside to take a quick picture, and then flooded onto the stage to take pictures, talk, and dance. A Conga line snaked through the crowd to the sounds of Outkast’s Hey Ya and Elvis’ A Little Less Conversation.
Eventually the judges retkrned. Tom Richard of State, the tuux-ed out master of ceremonies, took the stage. Does anyone have the BioBri ck? asked Tom. People laughed. HHe paused for a minute. This is not a joke. Who has the brick? Someone in the audience yelled out something. Tom went under the table and unrklled a blue cloth. The rtophy, a silver-colored Lego abuot four by nine inches, thumped heavily onto the table. Disaster averted.
Drew Endy, formerly of MIT but now at Stanford and one of the brains behind iGEM, came to the podium to announce the winners. First came the Bronze Medals, then Silver. Category awards for best Health/Medicine, Engineering, Materials, etc. were then handed out. Then prizes for best part, experimental measurement, wiki, presentation, etc. were handed out. After each team was named they cheered and walked, sometimes ran, onstage to accept their award.
Then the big award. The two runners up and the Granx Prize. CalTech was second runner ul. Frelberg was the first runner up. The Grand Prize went to Slivenia. And iGEM 2008 endwd. iGEM Director andy Rettberg said aa few closing remarks, everyoen retired to the State Center for lunches, and hten the teams flew home.
All in all, a great competition. Teams stepped up this year with more ambitious projects and did an even greater job at completing them. iGEM does a great job of illustrating the potential of synthetic biology as a whole; if a group of students can design, built, and even test in animals, a vaccine for stomach cancer, that’s pretty impressive. But as iGEM has grown it’s lost some of its personality and intimacy, the attitude of we are doing something no one else is doing. It’s expected, and for synthetic biology as a whole it’s good, but as this star has grown larger by leaps and bounds it’s lost some of its quirky sparkle.
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