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- In addition to our ambitious plans to revolutionize burn wound treatment by engineering a hydrogel wound dressing in the Lab, we were very aware that our science can never happen only behind closed doors.
+ In addition to our ambitious plans to revolutionize burn wound treatment by engineering a hydrogel wound dressing in the lab, we were very aware that our science can never happen only behind closed doors.
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We understand that to counteract some unsettling problems in our world, like misinformation and conspiracies that are currently rising in many societies, the whole science community must do better in helping the public understand that science in our modern and complex world is never easy and absolute in its claims. It is essential to show them what’s going on in a transparent way.
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To bridge the gap, we developed an interactive, accessible outreach strategy aimed at fostering dialogue between scientists and the public. Our primary objectives were to:
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- engage with individuals where they are — both physically and metaphorically.
+ engage with individuals where they are — both physically and metaphorically
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- initiate conversations in a playful, approachable manner (through activities such as board games, storytelling, and informal settings like hosting a waffle stand).
+ initiate conversations in a playful, approachable manner (through activities such as board games, storytelling, and informal settings like hosting a waffle stand)
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- elicit feedback, ideas, and concerns from the public regarding our project.
+ elicit feedback, ideas, and concerns from the public regarding our project
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- incorporate this feedback into the ongoing development of our project.
+ incorporate this feedback into the ongoing development of our project
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- With this problem in mind, it was our goal right from the start to invite the public to understand and reflect on our project, to not only teach them something but also to have an open ear for what they had to say. This is exactly why we presented our project at events like the Science City Day and the Day for Families in Hamburg - read about our experience below!
+ With this in mind, it was our goal right from the start to invite the public to understand and reflect on our project, to not only teach them something, but also to have an open ear for what they had to say. This is exactly why we presented our project at events like the Science City Day and the Day for Families in Hamburg - read about our experience below!
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- With our educational projects, we especially wanted to focus on members of younger generations. We wanted to share our fascination for Synthetic Biology and the scientific world with young people, to inspire them and show them possibilities for their future. During this educational work, it was highly interesting for us to receive feedback from young, creative minds regarding our ideas. We wanted to see our project through the eyes of kids, who sometimes think more outside the box.
+ With our educational projects, we especially wanted to focus on members of younger generations. We wanted to share our fascination for synthetic biology and the scientific world with young people, to inspire them and show them possibilities for their future. During this educational work, it was highly interesting for us to receive feedback from young, creative minds regarding our ideas. We wanted to see our project through the eyes of kids, who sometimes think more outside the box.
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We covered a wide range of age groups: from a visit at a local kindergarten to more advanced science-interested teenagers at the Student Research Center in Hamburg as well as grown-ups of all generations at the Science City Day and our waffle stall.
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- Looking back, we are proud of our achievement reaching so many different people of all age groups. We had an amazing time teaching the children so many new things about science. It was incredible to see them absorb the new knowledge with such curiosity. At the same time, we were thrilled to learn so much from the feedback of the children, the scientific staff and adults without a scientific background.
+ Looking back, we are proud of our achievement in reaching out to so many different people of all age groups. We had an amazing time teaching the children so many new things about science. It was incredible to see them absorb the new knowledge with such curiosity. At the same time, we were thrilled to learn so much from the feedback of the children, the scientific staff and adults without a scientific background.
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We have invested a lot of time and energy into developing concepts that future iGEM teams can use, and we are happy to share them with the iGEM community. It has been shown that the versatility of our education offerings was useful in introducing the target groups to the different aspects and perspectives of science. As a result of this, we can look forward to seeing synthetic biology and the science of everyday life reach many more people and children.
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<h3>Baking Waffles</h3>
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- What better way to awaken peoples' interest for an important scientific topic then to serve it with a treat? On three occasions we built up a stall to bake waffles using a vegan recipe to be more inclusive and sustainable: at a celebration in the biology department (20/06/2024), at the huge summer festival of the University of Hamburg on the main campus (26/06/2024), and at the summer party of the chemistry department (04/07/2024). Attending the festivities were academics, but also non-academics from every walk of life and of all ages, including families with kids.
+ What better way to awaken peoples' interest for an important scientific topic than to serve it with a treat? On three occasions we built up a stall to bake waffles using a vegan recipe to be more inclusive and sustainable: at a celebration in the biology department (20/06/2024), at the huge summer festival of the University of Hamburg on the main campus (26/06/2024), and at the summer party of the chemistry department (04/07/2024). Attending the festivities were academics, but also non-academics from every walk of life and of all ages, including families with kids.
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<a href="https://static.igem.wiki/teams/5077/education-pictures/vegan-waffle-recipe.pdf">Download waffle recipe</a>
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- <b>Aim:</b> By giving out waffles we wanted to collect donations for lab equipment while presenting reSkin to a broad audience and teach about synthetic biology. We wanted to raise the attention for our iGEM Hamburg.
+ <b>Aim:</b> By giving out waffles we wanted to collect donations for lab equipment while presenting reSkin to a broad audience and teach about synthetic biology. We wanted to raise the attention for our iGEM Hamburg project.
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<img src="https://static.igem.wiki/teams/5077/education-pictures/3stern.png" alt=""
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- To get peoples' attention, test their knowledge, and help them to learn something about Synthetic Biology we also built a small wheel of fortune combined with a quiz. Via this playful approach we introduced the sensitive topic of burn wounds and our project reSkin, which as a consequence drew a lot of interest. At the summer festival even the university's president visited our stall for some time and showed himself impressed.
+ To get peoples' attention, test their knowledge, and help them learn something about synthetic biology we also built a small wheel of fortune combined with a quiz. Via this playful approach we introduced the sensitive topic of burn wounds and our project reSkin, which as a consequence drew a lot of interest. At the summer festival even the university's president visited our stall for some time and showed himself impressed.
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<a href="https://static.igem.wiki/teams/5077/education-pictures/wheel-game-questions-done.pdf">Download questions</a>
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- <h3>Wheel of fortune</h3>
+ <h3>Presenting our Project</h3>
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<h3>Our motivation</h3>
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In order to learn that something exists, you have to get in contact with it. Most iGEM members in Hamburg are
- recruited by a presentation in their orientation week at the beginning of university or by a message in their
+ recruited by a presentation in their orientation week at the beginning of their studies or by a message in their
group chats. But if one is unavailable at the presentation date or simply misses the message as one of the
thousands in the group chats, they often don't know that iGEM exists and what potential it holds.
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During the general poster session, we also got the possibility to present the very first ideas of reSkin and
- to
- represent the iGEM competition at the University of Hamburg. Many students were really interested in our
- project
- and all the different aspects of iGEM. So maybe we will see some of them next year as the iGEM Team Hamburg
+ to represent the iGEM competition at the University of Hamburg. Many students were really interested in our
+ project and all the different aspects of iGEM. So maybe we will see some of them next year in the iGEM Team Hamburg
2025!
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- We were placed in one room together with the representatives of various companies giving us the perfect
- opportunity to network in between the poster sessions. They were all impressed by our works and we exchanged
+ We were placed in one room together with the representatives of various companies, giving us the perfect
+ opportunity to network in between the poster sessions. They were all impressed by our work and we exchanged
contacts.
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<h3>What is the Science City Day?</h3>
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- The iGEM Team Hamburg 2024 participated at Science City Day Hamburg Bahrenfeld. "Science City" is an important building project situated around the research facility DESY (German Electron Synchrotron). On Science City Day, many of the institutes in the vicinity opened their doors to the public: you could experience many experiments up close, watch researchers at work, and carry out activities yourself. On the 1st July of 2024 the number of visitors was estimated at 15,000. Everyone was welcomed to the event and both children and adults were admitted free of charge, making it an accessible event for all society members interested in science.
+ The iGEM Team Hamburg 2024 participated at Science City Day Hamburg Bahrenfeld. "Science City" is an important building project situated around the research facility DESY (German Electron Synchrotron). On Science City Day, many of the institutes in the vicinity opened their doors to the public: Visitors could experience many experiments up close, watch researchers at work, and carry out activities themselves. On the 1st of July the number of visitors was estimated at 15,000. Everyone was welcomed to the event and both children and adults were admitted free of charge, making it an accessible event for all society members interested in science.
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- <b>Aim:</b> With our different stations we wanted to represent the iGEM competition and our project to children as well as to a scientific and non-scientific audience.
+ <b>Aim:</b> With our different stations we wanted to present the iGEM competition and our project to children as well as to a scientific and non-scientific audience.
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<img src="https://static.igem.wiki/teams/5077/education-pictures/5sterne.png" alt=""
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<h3>Bouncing Bubbles</h3>
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- We represented the CSSB (Centre for Structural Systems Biology) and presented our team project and ourselves as Team iGEM Hamburg. We had a set-up where children of a young age could make their own non-bursting soap bubbles. With the help of water, soap and glycerine they were able to blow soap bubbles through a pipette. Furthermore, we produced a flyer to recreate the experiment at home where glycerine was replaced with sugar.
+ We represented the CSSB (Centre for Structural Systems Biology) and presented our team project and ourselves as Team iGEM Hamburg. We had a set-up where children of a young age could make their own non-bursting soap bubbles. With the help of water, soap and glycerine they were able to blow soap bubbles through a pipette. Furthermore, we produced a flyer to recreate the experiment at home wherein glycerine was replaced with sugar.
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<h4>Learnings for Team Hamburg</h4>
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We learned to improvise with the ingredients for our bouncing bubbles and to explain scientific facts to children in a way they can understand.
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<h5>Resilin</h5>
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- Resilin is one of the main components of our wound dressing. It makes the dressing flexible so that it fits well on any part of the body. Resilin is a special material that occurs naturally. It is highly elastic, which means that it can stretch and return to its original shape. Resilin is found primarily in insects. For example, fleas have tiny resilin "feathers" in their legs that help them jump very high even though they are so small. Dragonflies also have resilin in their wings, which helps them fly fast. Your task is to collect all components to produce resilin.
+ Resilin is one of the main components of our wound dressing. It makes the dressing flexible so that it fits well on any part of the body. Resilin is a special material that occurs naturally. It is highly elastic, which means that it can stretch and return to its original shape. Resilin is found primarily in insects. For example, fleas have tiny resilin "feathers" in their legs that help them jump very high, even though they are so small. Dragonflies also have resilin in their wings, which helps them fly fast. Your task is to collect all components to produce resilin.
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Unite. Innovate. Inspire.
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- This was the motto of the first ever BFH European Meetup. BFH - the collaboration of iGEM Bielefeld, Frankfurt and Hamburg has its origin in 2023. After bonding over several meetups and ultimately in Paris, some team members of the respective teams decided to establish an event set to be in the name of collaboration and communication. So beyond being advisors and instructors of the new iGEM teams of the 2024 competition, we gathered to host an European Meetup in Bielefeld. And this was just the beginning of a fruitful collaboration having the potential to become a long tradition of meetups. Here, I invite you to read about the BFH collaboration, its origin, its mission and the first meetup hosted in Bielefeld in May of 2024.
+ This was the motto of the first ever BFH European Meetup. BFH - the collaboration of iGEM Bielefeld, Frankfurt and Hamburg - has its origin in 2023. After bonding over several meetups and ultimately in Paris, some team members of the respective teams decided to establish an event set to be in the name of collaboration and communication. So beyond being advisors and instructors of the new iGEM teams of the 2024 competition, we gathered to host a European Meetup in Bielefeld. And this was just the beginning of a fruitful collaboration having the potential to become a long tradition of meetups. Here, we invite you to read about the BFH collaboration, its origin, its mission and the first meetup hosted in Bielefeld in May of 2024.
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<h3>The BFH committee of 2024</h3>
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- How does it come that iGEMers who just finished their own iGEM competition not even half a year prior come together and organize a whole meetup?
+ How does it come about that iGEMers who just finished their own iGEM competition not even half a year prior come together and organize a whole meetup?
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Several members of the 2023 iGEM teams of Bielefeld, Frankfurt and Hamburg met last year at the European Meetup in Münster. After knowing each other for only three days, they made close connections with each other and already made jokes about organizing their own event.
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So who are we?
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- The BFH committee is lead by one representatives of each team:
+ The BFH committee is lead by one representative of each team:
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- Sinan Zimmermann - former team lead of iGEM Bielefeld 2023 and Instructor of <a href="https://2024.igem.wiki/bielefeld-cebitec/">iGEM Bielefeld 2024</a>. Being part of the hosting team, he was the head of the BFH committee.
+ Sinan Zimmermann - former team lead of iGEM Bielefeld 2023 and instructor of <a href="https://2024.igem.wiki/bielefeld-cebitec/">iGEM Bielefeld 2024</a>. Being part of the hosting team, he was the head of the BFH committee.
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Olivia Mozolewska - former team lead of iGEM Frankfurt 2023 and advisor of <a href="https://2024.igem.wiki/gu-frankfurt/">iGEM Frankfurt 2024</a>.
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- In addition, we had support of several other people who either helped with planning the meetup, with executing it or by giving workshops:
+ In addition, we had support from several other people, who either helped with planning the meetup, with executing it or by giving workshops:
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Lennert Weber (advisor of iGEM Hamburg 2024), Andrea Köthe (advisor of iGEM Hamburg 2024), Malcolm Rose (advisor of iGEM Hamburg 2024), Christian Kolland (advisor of iGEM Frankfurt 2024) and of course the whole iGEM Bielefeld team of 2024 who exceeded all of our expectations for planning this amazing event!
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But why should a meetup be held so early if no team can show any results?
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- Because this is the perfect time to get feedback and advice from other students and professionals to avoid major mistakes and running into dead ends from the get go. Even before starting to actually work in the lab is the right moment to get valuable thoughts on the project and how it could be shaped to better fit into the context of iGEM and Synthetic Biology.
+ Because this is the perfect time to get feedback and advice from other students and professionals to avoid major mistakes and running into dead ends from the get go. Even before starting to actually work in the lab is the right moment to get valuable thoughts on the project and how it could be shaped to better fit into the context of iGEM and synthetic biology.
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- Besides that, teams were able to get first practice in presenting their work with posters and presentations. In workshops they have the chance to learn basic concepts that still could be applied throughout the whole project and are important in the context of the iGEM competition.
+ Besides that, teams were able to get first practice in presenting their work with posters and presentations. In workshops they have the chance to learn basic concepts, that still could be applied throughout the whole project and are important in the context of the iGEM competition.
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Thus, an early meetup, being rare in iGEM, is the perfect complementary addition to all the nicely organized meetups late in the season where teams then can show how they developed and what results they got. This also presents a good starting point you can compare to later and see what you achieved.
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<h3>The 2024 BFH European Meetup in Bielefeld</h3>
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- We aimed to combine several aspects of iGEM with our program that are essential in the early phases of the projects. Reaching from presentations, live talks and panel discussions to attending workshops and socializing.
+ We aimed to combine several aspects of iGEM with our program, that are essential in the early phases of the projects. Reaching from presentations, live talks and panel discussions to attending workshops and socializing.
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Scientific talks.
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- A fundamental part of every meetup or conference in general are scientific talks. We invited experienced scientists and stakeholders to present recent advances in the field of Synthetic Biology.
+ A fundamental part of every meetup or conference in general are scientific talks. We invited experienced scientists and stakeholders to present recent advances in the field of synthetic biology.
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Socializing activities.
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Presentations.
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- It is impossible to count how often iGEM teams have to present themselves and their project throughout the year. In Human Practices and Education activities, for sponsoring purposes or at big events, especially at the Grand Jamboree: teams have to give presentations every time they want to introduce themselves and display their project from the best side. Thus, we wanted to give the opportunity to practice doing so early in the season. The team members learned what parts of the project they should focus on when presenting their work and gained first experience to do so in iGEM.
+ It is impossible to count how often iGEM teams have to present themselves and their project throughout the year. In Human Practices and Education activities, for sponsoring purposes or at big events, especially at the Grand Jamboree: Teams have to give presentations every time they want to introduce themselves and display their project from the best side. Thus, we wanted to give the opportunity to practice doing so early in the season. The team members learned what parts of the project they should focus on when presenting their work and gained first experience to do so in iGEM.
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- Every team held a ten minute long presentation about their project idea followed by five minutes dedicated to question from the audience.
+ Every team held a ten minute long presentation about their project idea followed by five minutes dedicated to questions from the audience.
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Poster Session.
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Judging.
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- Presenting an idea is most effective when getting valuable feedback afterwards. We wanted to create the opportunity to not only get the feedback of other iGEMers but also from experienced iGEMers, academics and industry representatives. We invited a panel of judges to give detailed feedback on the presentations, the posters and the project idea. The feedback was forwarded to the teams afterwards to allow them to implement the feedback into their project.
+ Presenting an idea is most effective when getting valuable feedback afterwards. We wanted to create the opportunity to not only get the feedback of other iGEMers, but also from experienced iGEMers, academics and industry representatives. We invited a panel of judges to give detailed feedback on the presentations, the posters and the project idea. The feedback was forwarded to the teams afterwards to allow them to implement the feedback into their project.
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Panel Discussion.
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Thanks again to all of our sponsors that allowed us to have such a nice event.
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- Thanks to everyone participated in the planning and realization of the meetup!
+ Thanks to everyone participating in the planning and realization of the meetup!
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And thanks to everyone attending our first trial of planning such an event. It was a pleasure to meet y'all!
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<h3>General Introduction</h3>
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We organized a Science Day at the kindergarten to show the children how fascinating science is. The
- kindergarten group consisted of 17 children aged 3-6 years. We aimed to introduce the children to scientific
+ kindergarten group consisted of 17 children aged 3 to 6 years. We aimed to introduce the children to scientific
topics in a playful way and to show them that science can also be found in their everyday lives, such as
enzymes in saliva or bacteria in our bodies. We also wanted to show the children that science is independent
of gender and that women and girls can be enthusiastic about it. As an introduction, we wrote a puppet show
- ourselves, which we would like to make available to the future iGEM teams in German (link German version here)
- and English (link English version here). The children were enthusiastic about the puppet theater and had great
- fun learning about hygiene in this way. At five other stations, the children could gain exciting knowledge
- about bacteria, enzymes, hydrogels, and surface tension and thus better understand our reSkin project.
+ ourselves, which we would like to make available to future iGEM teams in German (<a href="https://static.igem.wiki/teams/5077/education-pictures/puppenspiel-deutsche-version.pdf">Puppenspiel iGEM 2024</a>) and English (<a href="https://static.igem.wiki/teams/5077/education-pictures/puppenspiel-english-version.pdf">puppet show iGEM Hamburg 2024</a>). The children were enthusiastic about the puppet theater and had great fun learning about hygiene in this way. At five other stations, the children could gain exciting knowledge about bacteria, enzymes, hydrogels, and surface tension and thus better understand our reSkin project.
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