IGEM:Harvard/2006/Project Proposals

Organization Suggestions
Think about these questions when preparing your project proposals for the group meeting.

For each project idea:


 * What is the specific goal of the project?
 * Alternate phrasing, courtesy of Kit Parker - what is the "deliverable?" The thing you will point to and say "this is our project?"
 * What are two or three possible means of implementing the idea?
 * Risk
 * How many untested things have to work for the project to succeed?
 * How will you test whether those things work or not?
 * How will you adjust your plan when one of these things fails to work?
 * How will you minimize the time/effort/resources lost to a failed design?
 * Can your time/effort/resources apply to more than one design simultaneously?
 * Reward
 * How cool, fun, exciting is the project for you?
 * What if any is the usefulness or societal benefit of the project?
 * What is going to impress the judges in November?
 * Timeline
 * What are the project milestones? (design, construction, testing)
 * What is the estimated time required for each? (always overestimate)
 * If you can't reach your ultimate goal by August, is there a satisfying intermediate goal?
 * What is the immediate next step in pursuing the project?
 * If DNA synthesis will be required, how soon will you have the sequence designed?