Around 19:30 in on October 28, 2022, SCU-China 2022 reaped the engraved bronze medal at the opening ceremony of iGEM.
I wrote on the table in the front row of the lab with a black marker pen the words "Dai Cong Tou", in fact I didn't know how this team would go on, during the falling apart, during accusations and suppression, in the specific environment at that time, everything was difficult and hard.
The group leaders of the 2020 grade got into the habit of being prudent: this was the team's last chance, I was afraid. In this year, we did something we would have frowned upon before. Life is the art of compromise, our instructors always told us. During the helplessness and acceptance, forward and backward folds, things were progressing, but we were terrified. Until we flew from Chengdu to Shanghai and then embarked on a 13-hour flight from Shanghai to Paris.
At the opening ceremony of 2023, we got an unexpectedly beautiful result. Today, in the lab, we tried to find the words "Dai Cong Tou" from a year ago, but they had been erased, while in front of the Arc de Triomphe, SCU-China 2023 left its mark.