Past semesters of CACAO

Past Semesters

2010

Spring

We ran a pilot competition in the Spring of 2010 with 20 volunteer undergraduates from Texas A&M University.  This was run on our sister site, EcoliWiki.

Fall

See the main article at: Category:CACAO_Fall_2010

After the initial test-run and a lot of positive feedback from the students, the competition was set up as a multi-national competition in the Fall of 2010 with the addition of teams from University College London. 

UCL CACAO team Fall 2010 (l-r) - Ruth Lovering (instructor), Amy Hong (Team UCL1), Coralea Stephanou (Team UCL1), Dipali Patel (Team Firefly), Athina Dritsoula (Team Firefly), Louisa Steel (Team Firefly) & Varsha Khodiyar (instructor)

2011

Spring

See the main article at: Category:CACAO_Spring_2011

We completed a second full semester-long competition in Spring 2011 with teams from TAMU, UNT, Miami Univ (Ohio), Penn State & Michigan State using GONUTS. 

Fall

See the main article at: Category:CACAO_Fall_2011

We finished the Fall 2011 competition that had students from TAMU, North Dakota State, Hofstra, Swarthmore, Houston Baptist, Mississippi State, Wisconsin, Wisconsin-Parkside and University College, London.  A team from UCL won the competition with teams from TAMU & Hofstra close behind.

2012

Spring

See the main article at: Category:CACAO_Spring_2012

The University of Central Florida has entered a bacterial genetics class of 54 students. Texas A&M, U. of North Texas, U. of Wisconsin-Parkside, North Dakota State and Michigan State are competing again this semester with UWP entering 2 courses. In all, there are more than 150 students competing this semester. They are under the careful supervision of a group of CACAO biocurators from Texas A&M consisting of either undergrads who have already completed CACAO at least once or grad students. We refer to these students as "CACAO II" and they are helping to make CACAO easier to scale up.

For the scoreboard, calendar, team listing, and other specific information, see the Spring 2012 page.

• For the UCF internal CACAO competition, see the UCF Internal competition page.
• For the 2012 MSU internal CACAO competition, see the 2012 MSU Internal competition page.

Fall

See the main article at: Category:CACAO_Fall_2012

• the Fall 2012 competition with students from TAMU, Swarthmore, and two classes at Otterbein University.
• Wisconsin is holding an internal competition for extra credit in their microbiology class.

For the Fall 2012 open competition scoreboard, see the Fall 2012 page.

• For the UW, Madison competition scoreboard, see the UW 2012 page.

2013

Spring

• Schools in the competition this semester include Centenary, Harvard, John Brown, Michigan State, Minnesota State - Moorhead, North Dakota State, Suffolk and Texas A&M.

See the main article at: Category:CACAO_Spring_2013

Plant CACAO

• UC-Davis vs. Stanford

Fall

• Texas A&M, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

See the main article at: Category:CACAO_Fall_2013

2014

Spring

• Centenary College, Michigan State University, Minnesota State University - Morehead, North Dakota State University and Texas A&M University.

See the main article at: Category:CACAO_Spring_2014

Fall

• Texas A&M University and University of Wisconsin- Parkside.

See the main article at: Category:CACAO_Fall_2014

2015

Spring

• Schools competing included Centenary College of Louisiana, Suffolk University, and Texas A&M University.

See the main article at: Category:CACAO_Spring_2015

Fall

• The schools in this competition were Texas A&M and Penn State.

See the main article at: Category:CACAO_Fall_2015