I learnt about the Golden Rice project during high school. It is a humanitarian project that tackles vitamin A-deficiency blindness in poor countries by genetically engineering staple rice to produce vitamin A, turning it orange. The project showed me that synthetic biology and genetic engineering can be used tackle global problems. The ability to alter the genetic blueprint of life opened up a world of wonder, creativity and opportunities. It has many successful applications in today's world such as synthetic insulin produced by genetically engineered bacteria. With so many synthetic biology possibilities to choose out there, I decided to focus on improving the genetic engineering technology itself to make it more efficient.