In this year’s iGEM's Virtual Giant Jamboree in November 2021, Virginia iGEM was awarded a Silver Medal for their innovative project in metabolic engineering: Manifold. Competing against almost 250 teams from around the world, the Virginia iGEM team completed a comprehensive design, laboratory plan, outreach components, and extensive math modeling work. This was the 15th consecutive year UVA has participated in the worldwide competition. Their project, Manifold, was highlighted in the following UVAToday article: HTTPS://NEWS.VIRGINIA.EDU/CONTENT/MAGICAL-SUPERFLUID-SYNTHETIC-BIOLOGY-STUDENTS-EXCEL-NANOTECHNOLOGY