This year, GreatBay-SCIE is committed to working on the inclusion of potentially neglected aspects of pesticide establishment. We prospect unrestricted application of effective pesticides regardless of geographical conditions, usage-scale considerations, academic background, and personal abilities. Holistically, our vision centers around equality, outlooking equality in usage, equality in tailored experience, equality in functionality, and equality in information for the whole of our prototype.

After analyzing our vision, we have concluded several target groups that may suffer impediments when employing our prototype. These include:

1. Individuals who don't speak Chinese
2. Individuals who have reading challenges
3. Individuals residing in various regions
4. Individuals with diverse pesticide-scale requirements
5. Individuals who are not familiar with synthetic biology

Thus, we aspire to enrich our product to accommodate the requirements of these categories of users and expand our impact on the betterment of the world.

While our human practice activities were conducted primarily in Chinese, we fully acknowledge the international spectrum of our target users. This year, our team members focused on making sure our prototype is more inclusive when it comes to languages through a variety of project initiatives: we included the five commonly spoken languages - English, Chinese, French, Spanish, Russian - in both our product instruction book and our leaflet for pest prevention. To ensure that language barriers do not impede our efforts to address the global spider mite crisis and raise international awareness about spider mite prevention, we expand our outreach.

The English Version of leaflet

The Chinese Version of leaflet

The French Version of leaflet

The Spanish Version of leaflet

The Russian Version of leaflet

The English Version of instruction book

The Chinese Version of instruction book

The French Version of instruction book

The Russian Version of instruction book

The Spanish Version of instruction book





With three products performing different functions in place, our prototype may require users' detailed understanding before application. This poses a significant disadvantage for individuals enduring reading challenges, such as those with dyslexia and elders experiencing vision deterioration. Inconsistent with our vision of equality in pesticide usage, we ought to resolve this through measures that dismantle such barrier. Therefore, our team members addressed these individuals in our inclusive design to via incorporating an AI reading feature into our product instruction book. Through this, we aim to significantly enhance the user experience of these people and allow them to access information without the trouble to read over the texts.

During an interview with the Shenzhen Forest Bureau, we were inspired to characterize our product into stages, each targeting different growth stages of Tetranychidae mites. After some intercommunication, we proposed our concern about how variations in spider mite life cycle may impact pesticide application. The Forest Bureau affirmed our conjecture and suggested that the life cycle of Tetranychidae mites depends largely on their external conditions. This includes factors such as temperature, humidity, altitude, and terrain. They explained that the spider mites typically prefer living and reproducing in the low-altitude regions with a hot, sunny and dry condition. To apply the pesticides efficiently, the Forest Bureau, or other professional institutes like them, would modify their application rates of pesticides based on the spider mites' life cycle in the given weather condition and area. The interview enlightened us that those without such consciousness may not adjust, or may not know how to adjust their pesticide usage to match their geographical position. This is again discrepant to our project's idea of equal pesticide usage. Thus, our team members formulated a method targeting this.

Deducing the fact that regional climate reflects the interplay of external conditions, our team developed a Regional Reference Map based on the Global Climate Map. Along with that, our team also customized the spraying frequency of our product for 11 distinct climates and their corresponding region in another diagram, the Region Reference Table. Through the combination of the two, users would be able to identify the different timing of pesticide application according to their area. To outline the method clearly, we also split the protocol into steps.

Step1: find the region you live in on the World Climate Regions map;
Step2: recognize the color that represents your region;
Step3: match the same color on the Regional Reference Table, and you can subsequently view the prevention period and outbreak period of spider mites at your region. Moreover, there would be an advised product application frequency and a reminder, which encourages the users to adjust their application rates according to the varying external conditions.

Our predictions for spider mite appearances rely on the climate of specific locations, which can vary slightly in temperature, latitude, and humidity even within the same climate zone. As a result, our Regional Reference Table serves only as a general reference for amateur florists, but we are difficult to offer the precise timings over a specific region. To improve this, we aim to establish a forum on Quora called "How often should I spray pesticides," where global individual florists allow to exchange their gardening experiences and timings of applying pesticides on their regions.

Our product aims to target all people susceptible to the invasion of spider mites, thus, we are aware that a variety of users may require different scales of pesticide. In order to verify this idea, we proposed this question during an interview with the owner of a tea plantation, Mr. Tao. He agreed and stated that he who cultivates on mountain terrain would like to have an automated spraying equipment that could spread pesticide across rugged terrain. When we asked whether a selection of pesticide apparatus available would be helpful for the public if we were to tackle the issue of usage-scale inclusivity, Mr. Tao showed great appreciation. Hence the idea of a vast array of apparatus was inspired.

Applying this idea, we designed a corresponding pesticide apparatus for each stakeholder in all subsequent human practice activities. Details can be seen here . For the floral designer of service industries, we have designed an equipment that could automatically drip one of the components of our product, 7-epiZ and 9H10epoZ, onto cultivations, establishing repellant and fecundity-reducing effects on spider mites. Therefore, floral designers will not need to allocate additional effort to applying our product regularly for mite prevention.

For the tea plantation owner, we have designed a backpack that contains our pesticide to distribute them in large amount. A manpower approach is more convenient for users who cultivate rugged terrain compared to an automated apparatus, as quick adjustments in pesticide distribution could be conducted according to the irregular terrain. This is also the most pervasive apparatus among large-scale pesticide users.

For individual horticulturists, we have designed a classical handheld sprayer. Users could apply a small volume of pesticides each time for occasional prevention and elimination.

Building our whole project based on synthetic biology, publicizing synthetic biology is one of our main goals to eliminate usage barricades. A lack of awareness of synthetic biology means a limited understanding of our product, resulting in outcomes such as fear of our pesticide and ignorance of better solutions to problems in the world. Whether it is simply providing the vast public fundamental knowledge about this new concept, or promoting understanding and acceptance of gene modification, our team is committed to establishing a general embrace of synthetic biology.

On one aspect, we conducted extensive education activities to reach out to the community. From the major public to elementary schools, we aimed to eliminate common misconceptions about synthetic biology, promote acceptance of synthetic biology, and encourage interest in the fields of synthetic biology. Click here to see more

On the other aspect, to ensure that a diverse audience can access our educational content quickly and conveniently, we established a WeChat official account with weekly updates of synthetic biology information. We aim to approach a broad range of users through this, guaranteeing free access and high content exposure, hence we hope to promote equality in product understanding and grand consent in synthetic biology products.

Our ultimate goal is to eliminate all barriers to the widespread use of our technology. Every piece of equipment embodies our unwavering commitment to addressing the global spider mite crisis, ensuring that no community is left behind. We aspire to create a world where all individuals, regardless of their abilities, backgrounds, or circumstances, have equal access to our solutions. Through our endeavors, we hope to eradicate the scourge of Tetranychidae mites once and for all.