Jamboree/Compete

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The annual Jamboree celebrates the culmination of the iGEM competition. All teams gather during the first weekend of November at MIT's Stata Center to share their parts and projects in competition for awards of excellence. Teams are judged based on their contribution to the community in a variety of formats:

• the documentation of their project on the iGEM 2007 wiki
• the documentation of their parts in the Registry
• the submission of their parts' DNA to the Registry
• via a conventional poster session
• and through a 20-minute presentation

One week before the Jamboree, the iGEM wiki and the Registry websites are frozen. The community spends this week participating in the judging process by evaluating teams' online contributions to the iGEM wiki and to the Registry. The judging committee uses these evaluations plus the teams' presentations and posters at the Jamboree to determine the winners of the Awards.

October 26: websites frozen

At 11:59 PM, Eastern Standard Time, Friday, October 26, the iGEM 2007 wiki and the Registry of Standard Biological Parts will be frozen for the 2007 Jamboree. This means that they will be put into a locked state that prevents all edits. During the following week, each team's content on the frozen iGEM 2007 wiki and the Registry will be evaluated by both the iGEM community, including the judging committee, in a collaborative judging process.

Be sure your project and part documentation on the iGEM wiki and the Registry is complete before 11:59 PM EST Oct 26 (04:59 GMT Oct 27)! No exceptions will be made. More information about how the community scoring process will work will be available in the coming months.

Project Documentation on the iGEM Wiki

Description: The team's project should be documented on the iGEM 2007 wiki site with detail enough to replicate it independently. Additional presentational information about the team - their story, the rationale for the project, failures, successes, future work, etc. - is highly encouraged. Remember that these wiki pages will be the main source of inspiration for future teams, and having good documentation on them and in the part description in the registry increases the likelihood of more teams building on your project and your parts.

• Judging criteria
• Good examples
• Help porting your external wiki content into the iGEM 2007 wiki
• deadline: the iGEM wiki freezes 04:59 GMT Oct 27

Part Documentation on the Registry

Description: Document your parts well - the success of not just iGEM, but all of synthetic biology, depends on the development of well-characterized, reliable, standardized biological parts that have been designed to be simple to use and understand. The first step is complete documentation.

• They must be promoted (favorited/selected) from the team's sandbox
• Basic criteria used by the Judging Committee
• Complete criteria required for an accepted rating
• Good examples / bad examples
• deadline: the Registry freezes 04:59 GMT Oct 27

Part Submission to the Registry

Description: Ship your parts to the Registry. Detailed instructions are available at [Jamboree/DNA Submission].

• deadline: part shipments must be postmarked by October 26, 2007

Project Poster

Description: Each team presents a poster describing their project at the Jamboree.

• The poster must not exceed 48 inches by 48 inches square!
• We will provide poster pins
• Please bring a PDF for the online poster archive.
• deadline: November 3 (at the Jamboree)

Project Presentation

Description: Each team has 20 minutes to present their project followed by a 5 minute Q/A period, with a 5 minute setup period.

• Please bring a PDF for the online presentation archive.
• deadline: November 3 (at the Jamboree)

Online Judging Process

More information about how the community scoring process will work will be available in the coming months.

Project Tracks

Teams may be separated into one of several broad categories based on the focus of their project, called tracks, to facilitate the judging process and organization of the Jamboree. The Judging committee is still deciding on the particular tracks, which will organize projects into something similar to the following categories:

• Energy & Environmental applications
• Health & Medicine applications
• Foundational Synthetic Biology (including basic part & device development, characterization techniques, etc.)
• Other

Judging Committee

• Overview
• How to Become a Judge
• Bio + Pics of Judges

Official Rules

Be sure to be familiar with the Official Rules