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Come meet the Science Cheerleaders and the SciStarter team in San Jose, CA on 2/14-15 at Family Science Days!
By Darlene Cavalier, Feb 06, 2015
SciStarter is partnering up with the Science Cheerleaders from the Oakland Raiders, editors from Discover Magazine and Astronomy Magazine, and regional citizen science project owners (AirCasting and ZomBEE Watch) at Family Science Days (a free event presented by the American Association for the Advancement of Science).
February 14 – 15, 2015
11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
San Jose Convention Center
Booth #43
Test your science knowledge at our Science JEOPARDY challenge on stage on 2/15 at noon! We’ll challenge three contestants using the same Discover Magazine facts JEOPARDY used on TV! (Win prizes!). This is also where you can meet the Science Cheerleaders from the Oakland Raiders, including Wendy, who is pursuing a PhD in biomedical engineering at UC Davis and is a coPI of the popular citizen science project, Project MERCCURI!
Join the conversation at #FamSciDays @SciStarter @DiscoverMag on Twitter .
Darlene Cavalier is a professor of practice at Arizona State University's School for the Future of Innovation in Society and a Senior Global Futures Scientist, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory at ASU. Professor Cavalier is the founder of SciStarter (a popular citizen science portal and research platform connecting millions of people to real science they can do), founder of Science Cheerleaders (a non profit organization comprised of current and former NFL, NBA and college cheerleaders pursuing STEM careers), cofounder of ECAST: Expert and Citizen Assessment of Science and Technology and cofounder of ScienceNearMe.org. She is a founding board member of the Citizen Science Association, an advisor and Fellow at National Geographic, a member of the EPA's National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology, appointed to the National Academy of Sciences "Designing Citizen Science to Support Science Learning" committee and named cochair of America 250's Innovation, Science, and Entrepreneurism Advisory Council. She is the co-editor of "The Rightful Place of Science: Citizen Science," author of "The Science of Cheerleading," and co-author of the Field Guide to Citizen Science (Timber Press). Recently, ASU President Michael Crow awarded Cavalier and her team the prestigious Medal for Social Embeddedness.
