Author: Emma Giles

Acts of Science: Connected Voices of Freedom: Transcribing Post-Civil War Handwritten Records with the Smithsonian Originally Aired April 10, 2026 Topic Citizen Science Month, America 250, Smithsonian, Transcription Audience Anyone and everyone! Watch the Webinar Description Watch the recorded webinar to be guided on how to transcribe records from the Freedmen’s Bureau to get us […]

Turn Your Curiosity Into Action and Keep Learning With New Scientist This April, millions of people will take part in real scientific research through Citizen Science Month, powered by SciStarter. From classifying wildlife images and analyzing space data to transcribing historical records and contributing to Alzheimer’s research, people around the world are turning curiosity into […]

Acts of Science: Connected What’s the Weather Like on Mars? Originally Aired April 2, 2026 Topic Citizen Science Month, America 250, Mars, Clouds, Space, Zooniverse, NASA Citizen Science Audience Anyone and everyone! Watch the Webinar Description Watch the recorded webinar to be guided on how to identify clouds and atmospheric features in online images of […]

Acts of Science: Connected Info Session for Hosts & Facilitators Originally Aired March 17, 2026 Audience All those interested in facilitating or hosting citizen science events/programs: librarians, museum staff, community organizers, SciStarter Ambassadors, etc Topic Acts of Science: Connected; the signature event series for April 2026 produced by SciStarter Watch the Webinar DESCRIPTION Acts of […]

Acts of Science: Connected Info Session for Hosts & Facilitators Originally Aired February 17, 2026 Audience All those interested in facilitating or hosting citizen science events/programs: librarians, museum staff, community organizers, SciStarter Ambassadors, etc Topic Acts of Science: Connected; the signature event series for April 2026 produced by SciStarter Watch the Webinar DESCRIPTION Acts of […]

Cosmic Pioneers: Discovering Distant Galaxies Together A Do NASA Science LIVE! Event featuring the NASA-supported citizen science project Dark Energy Explorers Originally Aired February 11, 2026 Audience Everyone! Topic Dark Energy, Galaxies, NASA Science Watch the Do NASA Science LIVE! Event DESCRIPTION We met the scientist behind Dark Energy Explorers, a project designed to look […]

Unearth a Story this Summer with SciStarter and the Collaborative Summer Library Program Originally Aired February 4, 2026 Audience Libraries Topic Citizen science in summer programming, connections to America 250 Watch the Webinar DESCRIPTION SciStarter and the Collaborative Summer Library Program (CSLP) teamed up to explore how libraries can bring citizen science into the Unearth […]

NISE Network Online Workshop: How to Be a Part of 2.50 Million Acts of Science with SciStarter Originally Aired January 13, 2026 Audience Informal STEM educators Topic Citizen science, turnkey events, connections to America 250 Watch the Webinar DESCRIPTION During this online workshop, we were joined by SciStarter for a discussion about how to get […]

Do NASA Science LIVE! with Redshift Wrangler Originally Aired December 11, 2025 Audience Everyone! Curious minds!NASA fans, Space fans, Solar System Ambassadors, SciStarter Ambassadors, Libraries and community centers Topic Learn how you can help a NASA-funded project use the light from distant galaxies to look back in time to the early universe! Watch the Recording […]

Do NASA Science LIVE! Planning Webinar Originally Aired November 18, 2025 Audience Solar System Ambassadors, SciStarter Ambassadors, librarians, and museums Topic NASA Citizen Science New virtual event series produced by SciStarter Watch the Webinar DESCRIPTION Just Announced! A new partnership between SciStarter and NASA: Do NASA Science LIVE! — a virtual event series that connects […]