Ambassador portal

From 2006.igem.org

This page should serve as a resource for the participants in the IGEM Ambassador Program to internally share ideas, organize ourselves, and reduce redundant email traffic.

Jamboree Planning

Jamboree Planning - I reanimated this orphaned page as a place to put things related to the Jamboree 2006 planning. jonas 09:04, 7 July 2006 (EDT)

Team Visit Goals

Team Visit Goals - overview of what ambassadors should review with their teams

Site Improvements

Improvements - Post your to-do list of improvements to the iGEM wiki and to the Registry

Teleconference

• Ahessel 06:31, 14 June 2006 (EDT): I am proposing a weekly Skype teleconference for ambassadors to more interactively share ideas and experiences on a regular basis, and generally keep our own communication flowing smoothly. Is everyone up for this? Please make comments on the Ambassador Phone Meetings page.

Resources

• jonas 05:44, 14 June 2006 (EDT): I created a page with Resources for ambassadors, where we should collect material like slides, pictures and other stuff that should life easier for ambassadors and prevents them from reinventing the wheel over and over.

Ambassador iGEM Team

• Ahessel 06:43, 14 June 2006 (EDT): James proposed that the Ambassadors also form a team to create an iGEM project, allowing us all to gain experience with the new software and tools, showcase robotic assembly, etc. Who's up for this? Direct your comments to the Ambassador iGEM Team page.

Funding page

• RS 11:25, 9 May 2006 (EDT): I seeded a page on Funding with some information. Please contribute. In particular, if anyone has an electronic version of the Cambridge brochure, it would be nice to link it there (if Cambridge doesn't mind).

iGEM newsletter planning

Click here for the iGEM newsletter portal

iGEM Artwork/Logos

Visit the iGEM Artwork/Logos page

General Schedule

The ambassadors other plans for spring/summer (where they are, what they're doing, and how much time they can invest in the ambassador program). Please add your information, so we get an overview for planning.

	March	April	May	June	July	August	September	October	November	December
Jonas Nart	Michigan, some time	lots of time	lots of time	learning, some time	learning, some time	learning, some time	exams(?), not so much time	exams, not so much time	more time	more time
[http://www.openwetware.org/wiki/Andrew_Hessel Andrew Hessel]	Cambridge, full time	full time	full time	full time	full time	holiday end of August [http://burningman.com (BRC)]	full time	full time	full time	full time
Tamara Ulrich	exams (no time)	lots of time beside lectures	lots of time beside lectures (no time in the first half)	lots of time beside lectures	no time	second half lots of time	lots of time beside learning	lots of time beside learning	time during weekends	time during weekends
Melissa Li	classes, grad school visits	classes, grad school visits	exams (bad!)	full-time	full-time	full-time -> start grad school late August	classes	classes	classes	classes
James Brown	classes Masters Project	Exams	Exams	Lots of free time	full-time	full-time	full-time	classes - some time -> start grad school early Oct	classes - some time	classes - some time
Robin	exams	part time	part time	part time	part time, unavailable from 18th to 25th	some time, learning	some time, exams	some time, exams	part time	part time
[http://openwetware.org/wiki/Reshma_Shetty Reshma Shetty]	some time ----->
Meagan Lizarazo	very little time	very little time	very little time	part-time ----->
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general remarks

I think it doesn't make sense for me to fill in my name in some random american schools, since it doesn't really make a difference for me if I end up with Duke or Penn state. We have to see how many european schools participate, to see how much of your presence is required there. Otherwise, i'd also like to see Japan jonas 10:53, 25 Feb 2006 (EST)

I'm certainly willing to take one of the European schools, but as there are nearly no schools from Europe yet (I really hope this is going to change), I'm also perfectly happy with travelling a little further. I'd very much like to go to Asia (especially Japan), and I'd also do some schools from America (and Canada), if there are too many schools for too few US ambassadors. Tamara 10:11, 26 Feb 2006 (UTC).

I am prepared to cover as many North American schools as necessary but will probably act mainly as a secondary for european schools. Dibs on Singapore, though. --Ahessel 12:38, 27 Feb 2006 (EST)

I guess that for new continental european schools, we just put in our names (the ETH guys), without setting prejudices who actually takes these teams. I did this for Ljubljana. jonas 16:41, 1 March 2006 (EST)

I am very flexible. It makes sense for Jonas, Tamara and me to do European schools. For me, a special preference would be NCBS Bangalore. -- Robin

I'd really like to see Montreal and Toronto! I wonder if we could coax any teams out of Australia/NZ (not to mention more European schools)...I heard they have some great engineering programs there but I'm not so sure about their biology programs? -- Melissa Li

We have space for people to crash if they want to visit Toronto. :) --Ahessel 20:35, 21 March 2006 (EST)

Hey, I don't mean to intrude, but this seemed like the most appropriate place to make this suggestion: Google Labs has a project called [http://www.google.com/coop/docs/guide_topics.html#Creating Google Co-op] that is "a platform which enables you to use your expertise to help other users find information," and allows "you to provide a customized search experience on Google for users who choose to subscribe to you." It might be worth exploring as a tool for the synthetic biology community; I'm sure the iGEM community at least could benefit from your expertiese. (As ambassadors who travel amongs the iGEM community, you may also find the [http://www.google.com/trends?q=synthetic+biology trends] tool fascinating because it provides some degree of demographic information for google searches, in this case those on "synthetic biology." The graph seems to indicate the search volume from India is nearly twice that of the USA! Normalization?) --Mac 23:54, 3 June 2006 (EDT)