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cool ideas for thinking about how, where, for whom and why we write/communicate about science

a local San Francisco community/citizen science project that might inspire project ideas, especially for those interested in place based, local projects (MT? AZ?)

This sonnet to science by Edgar Allan Poe made me think of my Intersections community -- How else might we personifiy science?

homepage of Public Lab a 5013c dedicated to putting tools for investigating scientific and environmental questions into the hands of citizens. Improving citizen science.

At age 12, Freeman Hrabowski marched with Martin Luther King. Now he's president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), where he works to create an environment that helps under-represented students -- specifically African-American, Latino and low-income learners -- get degrees in math and science. He shares the four pillars of UMBC's approach.

Lists of recommended literature for children and adults with quality science content from the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory.

This new family science website aimed at kids 6-9 might be of interest to Intersections teams building projects for youth in this age group. It includes an app that allows students to take photos and upload them in COPPA safe ways