Welcome to the 2019 Minterlab page!

What is Minterlab?

It's another version of Interlab but with a collaborative and outreach aspect to it. There are two parts to Minterlab: the lesson and the collaborative experiment.

As a part of Minterlab you will host multiple 5 day long camps where you teach kids 4-7 grade about bacteriology and synbio using a curriculum that has been curated by SoundBio and Tacoma RAIN iGEM team (but feel free to put your own twist to the curriculum)!

However, we understand how all teams have different schedules so:

• all teams can pick whenever and wherever they want to host the camps
• if 5 days is too long or to short, teams can change the itinerary to host camps longer or shorter than 5 days

The centerpiece of Minterlab is the collective lab aspect that the kids will be involved in.

How it Began

It started in the 2019 iGEM season when Interlab was removed as an iGEM requirement. This inspired Sophie Liu, a Public Relations lead at SoundBio iGEM, to create an alternative for teams to participate in while expanding the concept of Interlab to kids around the world.