Today’s blog post is brought to you by Candi Johnson. This summer, Y-CITYSCI is hosting a summer camp for current 8th through 12th graders that attend school in Madison, Venice, Brooklyn, Granite City, and East Alton, IL. This free camp will be held in Madison, IL on Monday through Friday, from July 6th to July…
Day: May 6, 2021
The History of Citizen Science

Today’s blog post is brought to you by Lisa Drennen. The term citizen science is relatively new, but public participation in scientific research to expand knowledge has been going on since the late 1800s. The first formal documentation of volunteers and scientists working together to further scientific knowledge involved bird migration monitoring between 1890s-1910. A…