Requirements

The iGEM Entrepreneurship Division aims primarily to educate students in the skills that make entrepreneurs successful, immerse them in the global entrepreneurial networks and have fun in the process of developing plans for and actually creating new organizations. As such, teams should be composed mostly of students enrolled in degree-granting programs. However, successful entrepreneurs seldom succeed alone. They are able to identify, attract, and work in teams composed of individuals with diverse and complementary skillsets, levels of experience and unique, sometimes clashing, viewpoints while still making progress and maintaining a team environment that invigorates team members. Below are some of the roles we expect all teams to have.

• Students: Undergraduate and graduate students in any discipline at an accredited college or university who have not yet earned their chosen degree [at the time of Team Registration i.e. March]. Each team should have at least four students, with half of the students being undergraduates. Undergraduates include students working towards a combined bachelor’s/master’s degree. Postgraduate students, or postdocs, may not be counted as graduate students but may serve advisors, but not primary advisors.

  Team structure: Students are responsible for the primary work of a team. Several schools may combine to form a team and one school may have several teams.

• Faculty Advisors: Each team must work with at least two faculty members, one from a school of management or business school, and one from any other disciple including, but not limited to, science, engineering, social sciences, medicine, law, and government. Additional faculty members may also be listed as faculty advisors.
• Primary Faculty Advisor: One of the faculty members must be designated as the primary faculty advisor. She or he is ultimately responsible for the official registration of the team, the team roster, and payment of team fees. The primary faculty advisor will also be the designated primary emergency contact for the team.

Optional:

• Advisors: In addition to the required roles above, teams are encouraged to recruit non-faculty advisors, or simply advisors. Typical advisors include active and past entrepreneurs, faculty entrepreneurs on temporary leave, technical and non-technical industry practitioners and postdocs, legal advisors, policy and industry analysts, private equity (angels, VC's, PE funds) and corporate venture investors and anyone else that may provide advice and connect the team to a trusted network of advisors, potential customers, suppliers, partners, funding agencies, and regulatory authorities.

• Team registration: A $2000USD registration fee is required for each team. See the Team Registration Fee page.
• Regional Jamboree attendance fee: $225USD for each undergraduate; $425USD for all other attendees.
• World Championship Jamboree attendance fee: $225USD is required for each undergraduate and $425USD for all other attendees for teams that advance to the World Championship Jamboree. See the Jamboree Attendance Fee page.

The team's project must be documented on the iGEM Wiki, the parts used in their project must be documented in the Registry online.

• Wiki: You have the freedom to be creative, but a few specific rules apply. See the wiki requirements.
• Data Page: Your Wiki must include one page that shows:
• A simple illustration of how the device works and where the Parts function in the system and
• Links to the Registry for the parts/ constructs for which you have produced data.

Do not expect the judges to look for data on other pages in your Wiki. See the Sample Data page.

Your submissions are needed to make the Registry better and better every year. Teams are required to provide their parts to the Registry as:

1. Standard biological parts in a standard BioBrick shipping plasmid, and as
2. High-quality documentation in the online registry

The physical DNA must be received by the Registry the deadline. Be sure you understand the requirements before submitting your DNA by the deadline. The standard shipping plasmid for the Registry is pSB1C3. See the DNA submission page for more details.

Be sure you understand the requirements before submitting your DNA by the deadline.

If your team is participating in the software tools track, you must make tools for use with standard BioBrick parts. Software tools must be available as open source projects on the iGEM servers. See more information on the Software Tools page.

The description of each project must clearly attribute work done by the Students and distinguish it from work done by others, including the host labs, Advisors, Instructors, technicians, sponsors, professional website designers/ artists, and commercial services.

• Safety Questions: Teams are required to answer the Safety questions on their team Safety Wiki page. See the Safety page for the list of questions.
• Deadline: Questions must be answered by the deadline. See Calendar for details.

All team members are required to attend their Regional Jamboree in October 2011. Each team will give a 20 minute presentation and present a poster of their project. Oral and poster presentations must be given by the Students.

All participants are required to work hard to build positive contributions to society and have lots of fun.