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Participating in the iGEM competition is a unique opportunity for undergraduate students to gain research and career skills. iGEM is a science pentathlon! It's part synthetic biology research project, part robotics competition for biology, part entrepreneurial pitch contest, part bioethics course, and part engineering design project. Students are expected to explore their own project ideas, reflect on and explain how their proposed solution to a problem would benefit society, engage in outreach to stakeholders, and operate as a team to complete proof-of-principle research. After working on their research during the spring and summer, teams create a project website and give poster and oral presentations at a Jamboree in mid-fall with >350 teams from all over the world participating.

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In the fall of each year, the iGEM community gathers at an annual meeting to present their work from the past year. Pre-COVID, the meetings were held in Boston, but for 2022 the expectation the meeting will be in Paris, France. Select students will have a chance to attend this event and to present our team's work.

Our iGEM alumni regularly go on to prestigious graduate schools, medical schools, and biotech companies. Recent alumni have gone to Caltech, MIT, Harvard, UT Austin, and other prestigious graduate programs. They can also be found at medical schools throughout Texas. Within Biotech, our recent alumni work at companies such as Ginkgo Bioworks, Sinofi, and Zymergen.

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