Thank you so much for coming @ACarpenDigital and the other speakers! Antony, your talk was so great!

We've had our first session of our Final Event - we've heard about the work of the HEIDI Project. Our next session will be on Diverse Voices for Diverse Needs using Digital Action. We're thrilled that some outside speakers are joining us to tell their stories!

Our Final Event Day 2 is starting! See you there!

Counting down the hours to Day 2 of our Final Event! 4pm BST. We'll hear more about the HEIDI Project and the work we've done, some short talks about other Digital Action efforts and hold an Inspiring Digital Action workshop! There's still time to join eventbrite.co.uk/e/ucl-heidi…

... for an Alzheimer's research project."

... plants has moved 9 days earlier over the past decade - there's a new type of aurora in the night sky (and the citizen scientists named it Steve!) - in one weekend, citizen scientists accomplished 2,566 research-hours, or 3.5 months equivalent lab research time ...

Ah yes, we promised alt text for this slide of the @SciStarter talk! "Because of Citizen Science, we now know ... - Bird populations have declined by 50% - Birds are breeding earlier - 50+ types of bacteria live in your belly button The first flowering of 19 species of...

That's it for today. We would love to see you tomorrow to discuss more about Digital Action and how to enable it - you can get a ticket for Day 2 here eventbrite.co.uk/e/ucl-heidi… See you then!

However, Bridgette adds that people are getting more creative about how they come together online, to stay human through the digital - e.g. playing an online game together!

As our other speakers point out, for many people virtual is the only way they *can* connect - as people come from all over the world.

Artemis asks Stefan: has he noticed online fatigue? We certainly did for some of our events! Stefan says indeed people do enjoy in-person events nowadays :-) (But people do love to connect from all over the world)

The talks were so interesting we don't have a lot of time for Q&A! You are welcome to tweet us and we will forward it on to the speakers!

Hehe, Darlene says @CoopSciScoop is the USA's @mhaklay :-)

However, any project signing up *does* get scrutinised - make sure it's not just money-making, marketing, etc.

Even very local projects can be registered on SciStarter - the website will show people near to you. Projects are able to target their recruitment, e.g. "I need data in this 50 mile radius" or "I'm holding a training event here".

There are trainings and resources "make your own kit" available - so programs scale up, e.g. across libraries across the country. They have lots of partners, eg universities, science centres, libraries ...

As Darlene explains, digital tools means things are customisable. They don't have to learn to talk to Girl Scouts - Girl Scouts facilitators do that, for example, or museum leads for their visitors, etc. This means SciStarter can scale up and reach lots of people!

Many schools and businesses require evidence that people have completed training etc (in the USA at least). However, SciStarter knows people continue to do citizen science after this training - they don't just get the certificate then go away.

SciStarter has also created some training modules - these can also be given as class assignments to college groups. The badges stay with the learner, so they can transfer their credits.