Project Portal FAQs

The Synthesis Project Portal is an online archive of SYN 100 student projects and a hub for all SYN-100-related project resources. The Project Portal: 

• Celebrates SYN-100 students working together to address local and global climate issues 

• Provides a resource to SYN-100 groups looking to conduct background research on their selected climate crisis topic, or continue a past SYN 100 project that is open for collaboration 

• Hosts the SYN 100 Microgrant Application and Guidelines 

• Hosts guidelines for borrowing Synthesis technology or equipment to create a project

• Hosts the form to request approval for a project-related event

• Hosts the form to request space on Seventh Instagram and newsletter to solicit survey participation for collecting project data, or advertise a project-related event

• Hosts the form to request space to display completed projects on Seventh social media platforms, Synthesis screens, or in-person

Each SYN-100 team is required to create their own project Google Site, which hosts your project abstract, the project deliverables, ways that future SYN-100 groups can continue your project, and your Creative Commons license choice.

The Google Site template is available in your team's project folder and can accessed by clicking on your section link here. While all of the elements on the template are required, your group can alter the template's structure to best demonstrate your groups research, deliverables, and creativity.

Once your group's Google Site is complete and you have concluded your SYN-100 course, your group will submit your Google Site link on Canvas.

Use the SYN-100 Team Project Google Site & Portal Submission Guidelines to create, complete, and share permissions for your Google Site.

The Creative Commons license is an internationally recognized copyright tool that enables your group - as the creators of your SYN-100 project - to protect your intellectual property and provide boundaries around how other SYN-100 groups can continue your project. For the Synthesis Project Portal, you can choose between 6 licenses using the Creative Commons License Chooser Tool. If you do not chose a Creative Common License, your project will go into the Public Domain. Please review your options and discuss the decision with your team and instructor/TA. More information about Creative Commons licenses can be found here, or on the Publishing & Licensing page of the Project Portal. 

As you prepare your files for submission, pay particular attention to copyright and privacy concerns. Consider whether your project includes content that your team did not create, like soundtracks or images. Is that content copyrighted? Did your project collect data via personal interviews or oral histories? If you continued a past SYN-100 project, did your group give appropriate credit? If this is the case for your team, please have a detailed conversation with your instructor, and if necessary contact synthesis@ucsd.edu for additional questions.

Ideally, all team members would be in agreement to publish the project; however, there may be certain circumstances that arise in which there is disagreement. If a team member doesn’t want their name published for any reason, they can allow their team to publish the project without their name. In this case, an additional statement on the Portal would state that the team also included additional unnamed members. 

If there is disagreement within a team about whether or not to publish the project, the section instructor and/or TA can facilitate a discussion to help make a decision and/or come to a compromise.

Projects should be submitted to the Portal through Canvas at the end of the quarter upon completion of your SYN-100 course. Your lecturer will determine specific dates.

Please see the Modification & Removal Policy.

Please reach out to your instructor and TA with initial questions. If necessary, please reach out to synthesis@ucsd.edu.