Gabriel See, a seventh grade student from Renaissance School of Arts and Reasoning in Sammamish, won a silver medal at iGEM (International Genetically Engineered Machine) 2009 as part of a two-member team with University of Washington student Jee Hoon Jang. iGEM is an undergraduate level synthetic biology research competition, where participants do research for 12 weeks and present their research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. See’s research project was called “BioBrick-A-Bot: Lego Robot for Automated BioBrick DNA Assembly” and involves creating a genomic lab liquid handling system using Lego Mindstorm NXT items and software.