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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><b>Washington iGEM is recruiting for the 2023-2024 Competition Season!</b> We are a fully undergraduate-led synthetic biology project
team, meaning we harness the power of living organisms and proteins to address a wide range of global issues, and are the only undergraduate group with a designated lab space. Every year, we design a new project to compete in the international iGEM Competition.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">The team is an opportunity for students to participate in a wide range of applied biology work, from bench work to computer modeling
and social impact research, as well as supporting tasks like marketing and web development. We are an interdisciplinary team and encourage applications from all types of majors. We accept applications from freshman, sophomores, and juniors (we cannot accept
seniors graduating at the end of this year as our competition season runs into fall of next year).</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">If you would like to learn more about our team or about the application process,
<b>we will be holding an information session at 4 pm on Tuesday, December 19<sup>th</sup> over Zoom</b> (<a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://washington.zoom.us/j/5054619776__;!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!hmoryzh6KSpTItLGS36vxfXiK5qCJowxPfHLxhxpv4xNiESrmG_F_lTLr4gLI7JFgj4ugPhlw2NT9A$" id="OWAd9503943-65ea-30e6-79db-20d392b05177" class="OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">https://washington.zoom.us/j/5054619776</a>).
We hope to see you there!</span></p>
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Please also visit our website (<a href="https://students.washington.edu/uwigem/#/" id="OWAdd5650a7-ab46-86f8-629f-e55f4ac8fa00" class="OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">https://students.washington.edu/uwigem/#/</a>)
or check us out on Instagram at </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(5, 99, 193); background-color: white;"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.instagram.com/washington_igem/?hl=en__;!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!jLTBozXIAeK8slhX7ZpIrX9vIleG1QHxkJz8zgJwSbQ69LvkMAiST8OMMF_T-eRTNi55g6gl7W5o_A$" id="OWAc7c67551-373b-cdd2-f997-0a00f1051d32" class="OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(5, 99, 193);">@washington_igem</a></span>
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">for more information.</span> <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">
Feel free to email us questions at <a href="mailto:uwigem@uw.edu" id="OWA72aa4124-c64d-8d5a-7ff5-d04297efe1de" class="OWAAutoLink" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">
uwigem@uw.edu</a> as well.</span></p>
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You can apply through this form (which is also on the website): <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://forms.gle/QzQDQ23ebBaPMG5i7__;!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!hmoryzh6KSpTItLGS36vxfXiK5qCJowxPfHLxhxpv4xNiESrmG_F_lTLr4gLI7JFgj4ugPhX4YQChQ$" id="OWAa0f68c0f-39bc-0185-6763-65eba1b1f174" class="OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">
https://forms.gle/QzQDQ23ebBaPMG5i7</a>. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: white;"><b>The application closes at 11:59 pm on Wednesday, January 3<sup>rd</sup>, which is the first day of winter quarter</b>. A link
to subteam descriptions is included on the application form.</span></p>
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