On February 29, 2020, CMGT hosted “Introduction to Citizen Science” Workshop at Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum.
This free workshop aims to introduce and engage faith based community to Citizen Science, a fun science-based activity for all ages and a great tool to build a better, healthier community.
At the event David Bild from Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum and Jennifer Schwarz Ballard from Chicago Botanic Garden delivered very interesting and informative presentations about Citizen Science projects that are available for the public to participate.
The titles of their speeches are “The Wide World of Community and Citizen Science: There’s a project for you!” and “Budburst: Community science for conservation action,” respectively.
Presentation slides can be downloaded from this link.
After the presentations, David and Melissa from the Nature Museum led hands-on activities to show Citizen Science apps and collection of specimens to attendees.
Total number of attendees at the event is 90 people including participants (children and adults), planning committee members, and volunteers.
We greatly appreciate our sponsors who provided us with generous support in terms of the venue, delicious foods and refreshments, compostable food supplies, and composting service:
Chicago Conservation Corps
Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
Baba Pita Restaurants
Verzenay Patisserie
We also received support from many organizations to promote our events. We are thankful for our supporters: Council of Islamic Organization in Greater Chicago (CIOGC), Downtown Islamic Center, Faith in Place, Parliaments of World’s Religion, and Spiritual Playdate.
To reduce waste at the event, we encouraged attendees to bring their own reusable water bottle, utensils, and food containers. We were also supported by Collective Resources who shared info about composting to attendees and diverted 10.6 lbs food scraps and compostable plates, cups, and wood utensils from the landfill. Additional 2.9 lbs recyclable waste was placed into the Blue Bin.
Please click here for Post Event Report.
Video from the event: