by Darlene Cavalier | Sep 2, 2009 | Blog, Citizen Science, Merchandise, Science Education, Science Policy
Want to support science literacy, citizen science, and participatory science and technology policy? Have I got a deal for YOU! Buy a ScienceCheerleader.com T-shirt. (Pass the Science Cheerleader’s Brain Makeover adult science literacy quiz and get $4 bucks off...
by Darlene Cavalier | Aug 28, 2009 | Citizen Science, Climate & Weather Projects, Projects & Activities
From Sarah: This photo was taken while I was painting ceramics by the beach of our Cancun resort…and I’m sure you observant readers can detect the sunburn on my face even though we had only been outside for 30 minutes. (And by the way, don’t think I...
by Darlene Cavalier | Aug 27, 2009 | Blog, Brain Makeover, Citizen Science, Events, In the News, Science Education
Thanks to ace reporter Nicole Brewer at CBS 3 in Philadelphia for putting this TV news feature together. In it, she talks about our efforts here on Science Cheerleader, to increase science literacy and raise the ranks of citizen scientists. GOOOOO Science!...
by Darlene Cavalier | Aug 23, 2009 | Blog, Citizen Science
The Missouri Stream Team program is celebrating its 20th anniversary. Through this program, an estimated 80,000 volunteer citizens have helped monitor the quality of Missouri’s water streams. And with recent reports showing (often high) levels of mercury in...
by Darlene Cavalier | Aug 20, 2009 | Brain Makeover, Citizen Science, Events, In the News, Interviews, OTA, Science Education, Science Policy
Now THIS radio interview was fun. And, more importantly, the fact we’ve hit FOX national news, the Toronto Star , news media in Switzerland, Argentina and the U.K., and this hard rock station (WXRX) in the mid west, tells us we are accomplishing what we set out...
by Darlene Cavalier | Aug 18, 2009 | Blog, Citizen Science
“How to be taken seriously by scientists and how not to be seen as a crazy, among scientists,” is the title of a today’s podcast from Astronomy Cast, the most popular astronomy-related podcast. “For those non-scientists trying to get their...
