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1) Message boards : Cafe : BOINC Competition for High School Students - Computation Moonshot (Message 2203) Posted 13 Feb 2024 by the_sci Post: The Science Commons Initiative is thrilled the launch the Computation Moonshot Competition! The Computation Moonshot is a competition for high schools which encourages students to learn about data science, computer science, distributed computing, and a wide array of fields in science by having them contribute to real, useful outcomes for researchers in an exciting competitive atmosphere. We utilize the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) to connect students to groundbreaking scientific research projects around the world. This year we are running on the World Community Grid project which studies, among other topics: climate science, genetics, cancer, and tuberculosis. We call processing data for these research projects “crunching”. Our goal in 2024 is to reach 50,000 donated hours of computation to research. The competition is free to all and requires no special knowledge or skills. We provide setup guides for teachers and students, along with educational resources on the research to which your computers are contributing. Compete for over $6,000 in prizes for schools and students, all while doing science! More information on the competition, including how to register your high school, can be found at computationmoonshot.org Follow moonshot on: mastodon twitter facebook
2) Message boards : Cafe : BOINC Census Results 2023 (Message 2175) Posted 24 Jan 2024 by the_sci Post: Check out what the community said about BOINC in 2023 https://thesciencecommons.org/BOINC/Census/2023/ Feel free to comment on the results in this post or share your thoughts in the BOINC Network discord , this forum, or wherever you connect with the network. Get notified via e-mail when the census happens next year or follow us on Mastodon , Twitter , and Facebook . Check out our free e-mail newsletter on substack . The census happens yearly and is run by the Science Commons Initiative, a 501(c)(3) non-profit public charity dedicated to rebuilding the bridge of trust and participation between the public and science.
3) Message boards : Cafe : 2023 BOINC Census is here, please take 5 minutes to fill it out and make your voice heard! (Message 2141) Posted 17 Nov 2023 by the_sci Post: The BOINC Census is back for another year! If you use BOINC, we want to hear your thoughts! Take the survey with the link below Should only take 5 min and your response could help shape the future of the community https://forms.fillout.com/t/n33grsgkeRus The BOINC Census is a project of the Science Commons Initiative, a 501(c)(3) non-profit rebuilding the bridge of trust and participation between the public and science. Follow us on mastodon or see our free newsletter on substack Happy crunching!
4) Message boards : Cafe : New Business Card Design to promote SiDock@Home! (Message 2113) Posted 13 Sep 2023 by the_sci Post: SCI is proud to release a suite of business cards, flyers, and other promotional materials to help promote BOINC and its awesome projects. There is a business card for each project, along with some general BOINC promotional materials available in our Github Repository. These are openly licensed so you are free to print your own, modify them to suit your needs, and distribute them however and wherever you'd like. Repo link: https://github.com/TheSCInitiative/BOINC-Promotion-and-Flyers/tree/main/cards The cards contain a link and QR code which redirects to each project's website. The links are redirected through SCI's site so we can measure the impact these cards are making. If you know of any other publicly-available promotional materials for BOINC, please let us know so we can add them to our repo. The Science Commons Initiative is a 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to rebuilding the bridge of trust and participation between the public and science. We also sponsor a bug bounty board for BOINC and more. To stay updated on our work, you can subscribe to our free newsletter on substack: https://thesciencecommons.substack.com/ PS We reached out to each project for feedback on what they'd like to see on the cards but many projects did not respond. If you are a project admin who would like some of the text on your card changed or have any questions please contact contact{at}thesciencecommons.org. Thanks!

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