ExCITe Center (3401 Market Street), April 22, 2015

9:30 AM - 12:30 AM 

Drexel University’s Center for Science, Technology & Society and the ExCITe Center invite you to a workshop using digital projects and their platforms to empower citizen scientists and improve accessibility as part of Philly Tech Week.  Representatives from both SciStarter.com and TheAsthmaFiles.org will be discussing the upcoming challenges to their cyber infrastructure.

SciStarter.com is a Philly start-up with international reach featuring 1,000 citizen science projects in need of help from the public. TheAsthmaFiles.org is a collaborative ethnographic research project designed to advance understanding and efforts to address environmental public health challenges around the world.

An updated infrastructure will make it easier for people to participate in citizen science, track their contributions, connect with others, and more.

Learn about the projects then weigh in during the hands-on workshop designed to enhance the platforms and improve the experience for participants.

The schedule is as follows:

9:00 am coffee

9:30 am Project presentations

10:30 am Project Workshopping

11:30 am brunch buffet

12:30 pm end

Register here!