{"id":4215,"date":"2018-04-02T18:36:55","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T22:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/science.mozilla.org\/blog\/?p=4215"},"modified":"2018-04-02T18:36:55","modified_gmt":"2018-04-02T22:36:55","slug":"mingrants2ndcohort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/mozilla-science\/mingrants2ndcohort\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Your New Science Mini-Grant Recipients!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Late last year we opened applications for our second round of open science mini-grants supported by generous funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation<\/a>. Today we\u2019d like to introduce you to the most recent cohort of recipients!<\/p>\n

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\"Group<\/a>

Group picture of Team EITCHA<\/p><\/div>\n

Project:<\/strong> Escola Itinerante de Tecnologia Cidad\u00e3 Hacker – EITCHA
\nLead:<\/strong> Leonardo Sehn Alves<\/em>
\nLocation:<\/strong> Brazil
\nDescription:<\/strong> EITCHA is a project to designed to teach children in schools around Porto Alegro in Brazil about open science, citizen science, open software and hardware, open data and information security. Project leads will be leading 3-day workshops demonstrating these concepts by teaching students how to program, deploy, and collect data through a meteorological station at their school.
\nLearn more and get involved:<\/strong> Website – http:\/\/eitcha.org\/<\/a> \/ Gitlab repository – https:\/\/gitlab.com\/eitcha<\/a><\/p>\n

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Project:<\/strong> Building an Open Data community in Madagascar
\nLead:<\/strong> Fabienne Rafidiharinirina<\/em> (Twitter: @assomaidi<\/a>)
\nLocation:<\/strong> Madagascar
\nDescription: This project aims to develop and implement a five-month training program for young students and engage them in establishing an Open Data Community in Madagascar. This will be achieved through data training courses, online and field data collection and the creation of an open data platform especially designed to publish data collected by non profit organizations.
\nLearn more and get involved:<\/strong> http:\/\/www.association-maidi.mg<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"Binder<\/a>

Binder Logo<\/p><\/div>\n

Project:<\/strong> Binder workshops
\nLead:<\/strong> Tim Head<\/em> (Twitter: @betatim<\/a> \/ GitHub: @betatim<\/a>)
\nLocation:<\/strong> Switzerland
\nDescription:<\/strong> Over six months, the leaders of this project will develop and test-drive a one day Binder workshop for educators, journalists and scientists who want to learn to use Binder to improve the accessibility, shareability and reusability of their work. The workshop will be tested at three events in Europe.
\nLearn more and get involved:<\/strong> https:\/\/mybinder.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Project:<\/strong> ETER || a free\/libre air-quality monitor for education & research
\nLead:<\/strong> Julieta Arancio<\/em> (Twitter: @cassandreces<\/a> \/ GitHub: @thessaly)<\/a>
\nLocation:<\/strong> Argentina
\nDescription:<\/strong> A six-month project for co-prototyping an open source air quality monitor with high school teachers. This will accompany the development of open educational resources around why and how to run open science school projects.
\nLearn more and get involved:<\/strong> https:\/\/github.com\/rlyehlab\/eter<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"'\u00a1Vuela!'<\/a>

‘\u00a1Vuela!’ means ‘fly!’ in Spanish. Image designed by @teddiet.wee<\/p><\/div>\n

Project:<\/strong> Open Science Drone Toolkit
\nLeads:<\/strong> Gustavo Pereyra Irujo & Paz Bernaldo<\/em> (Twitter: @gpereyrairujo<\/a> & @PazByC<\/a>)
\nLocation:<\/strong> Argentina & Chile
\nDescription:<\/strong> Through seven open and collaborative workshops in Chile & Argentina, this project will support the prototyping of an open source drone toolkit for improving scientific research in different fields and to help advance a community of collaborators and users of open science tools in South America.
\nLearn more and get involved:<\/strong> https:\/\/osf.io\/fscn4\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Project:<\/strong> DNA sequencing to the people
\nLead:<\/strong> Lisa Thalheim<\/em> (Twitter: @li5a<\/a> \/ GitHub: @lthalheim<\/a>)
\nLocation:<\/strong> Germany
\nDescription:<\/strong> The goal of this project is to put DNA sequencing into the hands of amateurs by running a series of workshops on a) creating open source hardware and protocols and b) giving people hands-on experience with DNA sequencing.
\nLearn more and get involved:<\/strong> https:\/\/github.com\/lthalheim\/DITSeq<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Project:<\/strong> Promoting Inclusive STEM Education – Tactile Material & 3D Printing
\nLead:<\/strong> Nikolaos Nerantzis<\/em> (Twitter: @nerantzis<\/a> \/ GitHub: @nerantzis<\/a>)
\nLocation:<\/strong> Greece
\nDescription: With a goal of promoting inclusive STEM education, this project aims to create tactile & 3D printing material to engage typical development, special educational needs and visually impaired students. Materials will be created through a series of five workshops taking place in upper primary & secondary schools.
\nLearn more and get involved:<\/strong> https:\/\/acoaf.wordpress.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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Project:<\/strong> Open Knowledge Maps Enthusiasts
\nLead:<\/strong> Maxi Schramm<\/em> (Twitter: @ok_Maps<\/a> \/ GitHub: @OpenKnowledgeMaps<\/a>)
\nLocation:<\/strong> Austria
\nDescription:<\/strong> Open Knowledge Maps seeks to establish a worldwide community of power users and ambassadors to involve users more strongly in the Open Knowledge Map platform creation process and to enable them to spread the knowledge of visual literature search techniques and increase access to scientific knowledge. They will do this through development of training materials, establishment of a community coordinator and a community infrastructure.
\nLearn more and get involved:<\/strong> https:\/\/openknowledgemaps.org<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"Project<\/a>

Project Lead, Caleb Kibet<\/p><\/div>\n

Project:<\/strong> Promoting Open, Reproducible, and Collaborative Bioinformatics Research in Kenya
\nLead:<\/strong> Caleb Kibet<\/em> (Twitter: @Calkibet<\/a> \/ Gitter: @kipkurui<\/a>)
\nLocation:<\/strong> Kenya
\nDescription:<\/strong> This project seeks to sensitize and promote open and reproducible bioinformatics research within Nairobi by organizing meetups, workshops and hack-a-thons to promote bioinformatics research. Target groups are graduate students and highly motivated undergraduate students in local universities.
\nLearn more and get involved:<\/strong> https:\/\/github.com\/kipkurui\/OpenScienceInBioinformatics-Kenya<\/a><\/p>\n

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We had a LOT of inspiring projects submitted for this round and it was a very tough selection process. Thank you to all who applied and wowed us with your projects.\u00a0 Please join us in congratulating these grantees and please do reach out to the project leads if you are interested in supporting these projects!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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