国际基因工程机器大赛高中赛道发展概况

Development of the iGEM high school track

摘要:

国际基因工程机器大赛(international genetically engineered machine competition,简称iGEM竞赛)是合成生物学国际顶级大学生学术竞赛。iGEM竞赛赛况及项目成果受到Science、Nature、Scientific American、The Economist、英国广播公司(BBC)等顶级学术期刊或国际媒体的关注，具有广泛的国际影响力。吸引了来自世界40多个国家和地区的队伍参赛。2011年起开始有高中队参赛，参赛队伍数量逐年增加，高中生日益成为推动iGEM竞赛及合成生物学发展的重要力量之一，iGEM竞赛也成为培养中学生核心素养的重要平台。基于2017–2021年全球高中队参赛情况，本文总结了高中队赛道规则、选题倾向及获奖情况，进一步分析iGEM竞赛对高中生核心素养培养的意义，探究全球高中参赛队伍的发展趋势，为未来高中参赛队伍建设提供理论参考。

Abstract:

The international genetically engineered machine (iGEM) competition is a global top college academic competition in synthetic biology. The iGEM competition has exhibited extensive international influence and attracted teams from more than 40 countries and regions around the world to participate in. The annual iGEM outputs have attracted the attention of top academic journals or international media such as Science, Nature, Scientific American, The Economist, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), etc. High school teams participated in iGEM since 2011, and the number of high school teams has increased year by year. High school participants are increasingly becoming one of the most important forces to promote the development of iGEM and synthetic biology. IGEM competition has also become an important platform to foster the core literacy of high school students. This paper summarized the track rules, topic selection tendency and awards of high school teams based on data of 2017 to 2021 iGEM competition. In addition, we analyzed the significance of iGEM competition on fostering of high school students' core literacy and discussed the development trend of global high school teams, with the aim to provide a reference for high school team building in the future.