Author: Emma Giles

Acts of Science: Connected Comets, Clues, and Our Cosmic Story Originally Aired April 29, 2026 Topic Citizen Science Month, America 250, Space, Comets Audience Anyone and everyone! Watch the Webinar Description Watch the recorded webinar to be guided on how to identify active comets from Rubin Observatory images in the citizen science project, Rubin Comet […]

Acts of Science: Connected Earth Day Animal Spot-A-Thon Originally Aired April 22, 2026 Topic Citizen Science Month, America 250, wildlife, trail cameras Audience Anyone and everyone! Watch the Webinar Link Bank Description Watch the recorded webinar to be guided on how to identify animals in trail camera images across Wisconsin, accessible from anywhere in the […]

Acts of Science: Connected Game Night for Science: Play Stall Catchers Online Originally Aired April 16, 2026 Topic Citizen Science Month, America 250, Gaming, Alzheimer’s Disease Audience Anyone and everyone! Watch the Webinar Description Watch the recorded webinar to be guided on how to classify images of blood vessels as flowing or stalled. Your participation […]

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 […]