Colouring is often deemed to be a therapeutic and relaxing activity, for children and adults alike. We believe that a colouring book is a fantastic tool to ingrain biology in young and impressionable minds.
Anushka and Geeth from iGEM IISc's design team curated a SynBio colouring book over the course of the iGEM cycle, with colour-in pictures of DNA and bacteria, among other Synthetic Biology motifs; as well as of neurons and the brain, among other biological concepts closely related to AptalXero.
The final colouring book consisted of over twenty drawings for children to colour-in, and was distributed in some government schools in Bangalore. We present below some snippets from the colouring book.
