摘要：The international Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Foundation has continued to promote synthetic biology educationthroughout its 2021 competition. The 2021 Virtual iGEM Jamboree was the culmination of the competition’s growth, with 350projects from 7314 innovators globally. Collegiate, high school, and community lab teams applied their ideas to the Registry ofStandard Biological Parts, designing biological systems that provide solutions to an international scope of issues. Theenvironmental, diagnostics, and therapeutics tracks continue to be the most prevalent focal points for projects, as students deviseapproaches to detrimental impacts of climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic. The competition exemplifies high standards ofhuman practices, biosafety, and biosecurity through responsible biological engineering. As the iGEM Foundation continuespioneering STEM education into the future, equal developments of the competition’s economic accessibility, global diversity, andlong-term impact are necessary to allow a larger range of thinkers to access the power of synthetic biology.