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How many reported Acts of Science do you think GSWPA will complete between April 1-30, 2025? 

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How many reported Acts of Science do you think GSWPA will complete between April 1-30, 2025? 

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Comment below how many reported Acts of Science you think GSWPA will complete in April 2025!

Please make sure your comment includes your first name, last initial and troop number along with your guess.

The Girl Scout with the closest guess, without going over, will receive a FREE STEM Activity Pack!

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There are multiple projects under this category. You can select one or more to complete.

Our suggested projects are featured here.

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SciStarter connects people to citizen science projects, citizen scientists, and resources. Real science we can do together.

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National Moth Week and SciStarter are teaming up for International Moth Night on April 28th during Citizen Science Month! Mothing is a fun, easy way to connect with nature and contribute to science—and you can host a Moth Party any night of the year!

🌙 Register your own Moth Party and join a global community of moth-watchers collecting important data on moth diversity. Whether in your backyard, a local park, or with a group, your observations help scientists understand these fascinating nighttime pollinators.

Extra moth puns for you to keep you moth-ivated to host a Moth Party: Don’t be in the dark—host a Moth Party and shine a light on science! Join the flutter and host a Moth Party! Don't wing it—register your Moth Party today! Be the moth-stess with the mostest—host a Moth Party!

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Light up the night—MOTH style for International Moth Night - SciStarter

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National Moth Week and SciStarter are teaming up for International Moth Night on April 28th during Citizen Science Month! Mothing is a fun, easy way to connect with nature and contribute to science—and you can host a Moth Party any night of the year! 🌙 Register your own Moth Party and join a global community of moth-watchers collecting important data on moth diversity. Whether in your backyard, a local park, or with a group, your observations help scientists understand these fascinating nighttime pollinators. Extra moth puns for you to keep you moth-ivated to host a Moth Party: Don’t be in …

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Add your plant phenology observations to Budburst's years of data! Contribute to help understand how plants and ecosystems respond to environmental change. Budburst (formerly Project BudBurst) is a global network of citizen scientists monitoring plants as the seasons change. Free instructional materials are available to support implementation in a variety of educational settings - Budburst is perfect for classroom learning or family fun.

We have three on-going research projects: Phenology and Climate, in which participants can observe plants going through seasonal changes; Pollinators and Climate, in which participants document pollinator visitation to flowering plants; and Milkweeds and Monarchs, in which participants search for monarch caterpillars and eggs to help preserve the monarch population.

Every observation from all across the globe helps us answer questions about how plants are being impacted by climate change. Join Budburst and submit data from your phone - it's as easy as snapping a picture!

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Add your plant phenology observations to Budburst’s years of data! Contribute to help understand how plants and ecosystems respond to environmental change. Budburst (formerly Project BudBurst) is a global network of citizen scientists monitoring plants as the seasons change. Free instructional materials are available to support implementation in a variety of educational settings - Budburst is perfect for classroom learning or family fun. We have three on-going research projects: Phenology and Climate, in which participants can observe plants going through seasonal changes; Pollinators and Climate, in which participants document pollinator visitation to flowering plants; and Milkweeds and Monarchs, in which …

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Seven out of 10 people in the US have never seen our Milky Way Galaxy arch across their night sky from where they live. Have you? If so, you're lucky! If not, it's probably because of light pollution (too much outdoor lighting).

Light pollution not only affects our view of the stars, but it also wastes energy and money (about $2 to $10 billion a year!), causes sleep disorders in people, and disrupts the sleeping, breeding and migration habits of animals.

You can join other citizen scientists by measuring your night sky brightness and submitting your observations. Just go outside at least an hour after sunset (8-10pm local time) when the moon is not up. Let your eyes adjust to the dark for about 10 minutes, then start your first observation.

Compare how many stars you can see in a constellation with how many stars you should be able to see. Light pollution may be a global problem, but the solutions are local and it starts with you.

Your data, paired with time and location, wil help create a light pollution map worldwide. It's easy to get involved - all you need is computer or smartphone!

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Seven out of 10 people in the US have never seen our Milky Way Galaxy arch across their night sky from where they live. Have you? If so, you’re lucky! If not, it’s probably because of light pollution (too much outdoor lighting). Light pollution not only affects our view of the stars, but it also wastes energy and money (about $2 to $10 billion a year!), causes sleep disorders in people, and disrupts the sleeping, breeding and migration habits of animals. You can join other citizen scientists by measuring your night sky brightness and submitting your observations. Just go outside …

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Journey North is a crowdsourced, participatory science program of the UW-Madison Arboretum. Thousands of volunteers across North America contribute observational data that help track wildlife migration and seasonal change. Journey North volunteers track the migration of monarch butterflies; six species of hummingbirds; American robins; common loons; red-winged blackbirds; Baltimore, Bullocks and orchard orioles; barn swallows; and bald eagles.

You can also join in a Journey North's educational project called the Tulip Test Garden. Plant tulip bulbs in the fall and then predict emergence and bloom dates in the spring.

Explore the Journey North website for inquiry-based learning resources designed to engage students in the study of wildlife migration. Subscribe to receive news updates. Finally, watch migration unfold in real-time on interactive maps.

Report your observations today and all year round. Report signs of spring: https://journeynorth.org/sunlight-seasons

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Journey North is a crowdsourced, participatory science program of the UW-Madison Arboretum. Thousands of volunteers across North America contribute observational data that help track wildlife migration and seasonal change. Journey North volunteers track the migration of monarch butterflies; six species of hummingbirds; American robins; common loons; red-winged blackbirds; Baltimore, Bullocks and orchard orioles; barn swallows; and bald eagles. You can also join in a Journey North's educational project called the Tulip Test Garden. Plant tulip bulbs in the fall and then predict emergence and bloom dates in the spring. Explore the Journey North website for inquiry-based learning resources designed to engage students in the study of wildlife migration. Subscribe to receive news updates. Finally, watch migration unfold in real-time on interactive maps. Report your observations today and all year round. Report signs of spring: https://journeynorth.org/sunlight-seasons

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Journey North is a crowdsourced, participatory science program of the UW-Madison Arboretum. Thousands of volunteers across North America contribute observational data that help track wildlife migration and seasonal change. Journey North volunteers track the migration of monarch butterflies; six species of hummingbirds; American robins; common loons; red-winged blackbirds; Baltimore, Bullocks and orchard orioles; barn swallows; and bald eagles.

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The Great Sunflower Project has three programs. The Safe Gardens for Pollinators program which uses data collected on Lemon Queen sunflowers to examine the effects of pesticides on pollinators. The Pollinator Friendly Plants program which is designed to identify the key plants to support healthy pollinator communities. And, the Great Pollinator Habitat Challenge which allows citizen scientists to evaluate and improve gardens, parks and other green spaces for pollinators.

Some bee populations have experienced severe declines that may affect food production. However, nobody has ever measured how much pollination is happening over a region, much less a continent, so there is little information about how a decline in the bee population can influence gardens.

The Great Sunflower Project makes it easy to gather this information. Find a plant you know (or a Lemon Queen Sunflower), observe it for 5 or more minutes and record all pollinators that visit, and contribute data online. You can make as many observations as you want while your flowers are in bloom. Plant, Watch, Enter. Repeat. That's it. And, who doesn't like sunflowers?!

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The Great Sunflower Project has three programs. The Safe Gardens for Pollinators program which uses data collected on Lemon Queen sunflowers to examine the effects of pesticides on pollinators. The Pollinator Friendly Plants program which is designed to identify the key plants to support healthy pollinator communities. And, the Great Pollinator Habitat Challenge which allows citizen scientists to evaluate and improve gardens, parks and other green spaces for pollinators. Some bee populations have experienced severe declines that may affect food production. However, nobody has ever measured how much pollination is happening over a region, much less a continent, so there is little information about how a decline in the bee population can influence gardens. The Great Sunflower Project makes it easy to gather this information. Find a plant you know (or a Lemon Queen Sunflower), observe it for 5 or more minutes and record all pollinators that visit, and contribute data online. You can make as many observations as you want while your flowers are in bloom. Plant, Watch, Enter. Repeat. That's it. And, who doesn't like sunflowers?!

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The Great Sunflower Project - SciStarter

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The Great Sunflower Project has three programs. The Safe Gardens for Pollinators program which uses data collected on Lemon Queen sunflowers to examine the effects of pesticides on pollinators. The Pollinator Friendly Plants program which is designed to identify the key plants to support healthy pollinator communities.

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The Dog Aging Project & Darwin's Cats

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Visit our homepage at dogagingproject.org and click the purple Enroll Your Dog button. You’ll be asked to complete a short survey that includes basic information about you and your dog, which will help us determine how to best include you in our research.

At the Dog Aging Project, we conduct rigorous scientific research designed to define, explain, and ameliorate the effects of aging. To achieve this mission, we have built a community of volunteers and researchers united by a shared love for dogs and committed to helping dogs and humans live longer, healthier lives — together.

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At the Dog Aging Project, we conduct rigorous scientific research designed to define, explain, and ameliorate the effects of aging. To achieve this mission, we have built a community of volunteers and researchers united by a shared love for dogs and committed to helping dogs and humans live longer, healthier lives — together.

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Visit our website (https://cats.darwinsark.org). Sign up to create an account. Add your cat. Answer survey questions about your cat (they're fun)! If you wish, you may also donate to sequence your cat's DNA. DNA sequencing is not required to participate in Darwin's Cats.

Darwin's Cats is a community science project conducted by the nonprofit organization Darwin's Ark. While domestic cats have lived alongside humans for centuries, cats are surprisingly understudied. Darwin’s Cats is asking community scientists to join us in our research to rapidly advance our understanding of cat genetics, behavior, and evolutionary history.

Darwin’s Cats participants can tell us about their pets through free online surveys, or contribute to our genetics research by donating to sequence their cat’s DNA. Our community scientists are populating a massive, comprehensive database that will change the scale and scope at which pet research is conducted—not just at Darwin’s Ark, but worldwide.

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Darwin’s Cats is a community science project conducted by the nonprofit organization Darwin’s Ark. While domestic cats have lived alongside humans for centuries, cats are surprisingly understudied. Darwin’s Cats is asking community scientists to join us in our research to rapidly advance our understanding of cat genetics, behavior, and evolutionary history. Darwin’s Cats participants can tell us about their pets through free online surveys, or contribute to our genetics research by donating to sequence their cat’s DNA. Our community scientists are populating a massive, comprehensive database that will change the scale and scope at which pet research is conducted—not just …

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Despite comprehensive civil rights legislation for Americans with disabilities, many city streets, sidewalks, and businesses remain inaccessible. Project Sidewalk, and our network of volunteers, plan to change that. Project Sidewalk is a web-based tool that allows anyone with a web browser and internet connection to contribute sidewalk accessibility information virtually using Google Street View. The data we collect is open and publicly available through our APIs. The data can be used by city governments to prioritize certain places for sidewalk upgrades/repairs. It can and has been used by members of the community to lobby for more funding for sidewalk repairs by the city. Or the data could be used in a number of other ways, including through new pedestrian routing applications!

The long term goal of Project Sidewalk is to use this very large dataset to train computer vision and machine learning algorithms to detect accessibility problems automatically. Collecting accessibility data is expensive for cities and time consuming for volunteers. If this data can be collected automatically, it will free up money in city budgets to actually do the sidewalk repairs.

DOs and DONTs slides: https://tinyurl.com/ProjectSidewalkDosAndDonts Training slides: https://tinyurl.com/ProjectSidewalkTraining

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Despite comprehensive civil rights legislation for Americans with disabilities, many city streets, sidewalks, and businesses remain inaccessible. Project Sidewalk, and our network of volunteers, plan to change that. Project Sidewalk is a web-based tool that allows anyone with a web browser and internet connection to contribute sidewalk accessibility information virtually using Google Street View. The data we collect is open and publicly available through our APIs. The data can be used by city governments to prioritize certain places for sidewalk upgrades/repairs. It can and has been used by members of the community to lobby for more funding for sidewalk repairs …

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Check out the SciStarter Citizen Science Month Calendar for additional projects!

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Comment on this post to share what you did as you completed a Moth Party project.

*This does not count as "tracking" your Act of Science. This is a way to show other Girl Scouts what you did!

Please be sure to complete the Tracking Form (under the "READ ME FIRST" tab) to log your Act of Science!

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Comment on this post to share what you did as you completed an Earth Day project.

*This does not count as "tracking" your Act of Science. This is a way to show other Girl Scouts what you did!

Please be sure to complete the Tracking Form (under the "READ ME FIRST" tab) to log your Act of Science!

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Comment on this post to share what you did as you completed a Globe at Night project.

*This does not count as "tracking" your Act of Science. This is a way to show other Girl Scouts what you did!

Please be sure to complete the Tracking Form (under the "READ ME FIRST" tab) to log your Act of Science!

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Share what you did! *National Garden Day*

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Share what you did! *National Garden Day*

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Comment on this post to share what you did as you completed a project for National Garden Day.

*This does not count as "tracking" your Act of Science. This is a way to show other Girl Scouts what you did!

Please be sure to complete the Tracking Form (under the "READ ME FIRST" tab) to log your Act of Science!

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Comment on this post to share what you did as you completed a project for Take a Pet Selfie.

*This does not count as "tracking" your Act of Science. This is a way to show other Girl Scouts what you did!

Please be sure to complete the Tracking Form (under the "READ ME FIRST" tab) to log your Act of Science!

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Comment on this post to share what you did as you completed a project with Project Sidewalk.

*This does not count as "tracking" your Act of Science. This is a way to show other Girl Scouts what you did!

Please be sure to complete the Tracking Form (under the "READ ME FIRST" tab) to log your Act of Science!

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Use this form to log all Acts of Science completed. You can submit one form per act or multiple acts on the same form.

Please list all participants (Girl Scouts, Volunteers, Non-Members - this means parents, siblings, and friends!)

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All Acts of Science reported via this form will be reported to https://scistarter.org/citizensciencemonth-report on your behalf. You do not need to submit a form to SciStarter. You may submit one form per group or troop and may submit multiple Acts of Science at a time.

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Help us help SciStarter complete 1 Million Acts of Science!

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Help us help SciStarter complete 1 Million Acts of Science!

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Hey Girl Scouts,

Thank you for joining us as we help SciStarter complete 1 Million Acts of Science during April 2025.

This Padlet contains the featured projects that GSWPA thinks would be good for our members. You can complete ANY and ALL projects at Citizen Science Month - One Million Acts of Science! - SciStarter.

After you complete a project, submit the TRACKING FORM to let GSWPA know what you did. GSWPA will submit your Acts of Science for you! When we submit the Acts of Science, we will include your first name and last initial.

If you have any questions about how to complete a project, contact customercare@gswpa.org to be connected to our Girl Program staff who are SciStarter Ambassadors.

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GLOBE Observer is an international citizen science initiative to understand our global environment. Your observations help scientists track changes in clouds in support of climate research. Scientists also use your data to verify NASA satellite data. And by submitting your observations, you can help students of all ages do real scientific research as part of the GLOBE Program. To participate, just download the app, go outside and follow the prompts in the app to observe your environment. Photograph clouds, record sky observations and compare them with NASA satellite images to help scientists understand the sky from above and below.

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SciStarter connects people to citizen science projects, citizen scientists, and resources. Real science we can do together.

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Comment on this post to share what you did as you completed a project with GLOBE Observers: Clouds.

*This does not count as "tracking" your Act of Science. This is a way to show other Girl Scouts what you did!

Please be sure to complete the Tracking Form (under the "READ ME FIRST" tab) to log your Act of Science!

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Girl Scouts Overseas has created a Girl Scout Challenge to see who can catch the most stalls!

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2025 Citizen Science Month with Girl Scouts Overseas

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Help scientists analyze movies from the brain affected with Alzheimer’s - are the blood vessels flowing or stalled?

Today, there is no treatment for Alzheimer's. Together with researchers at Cornell University, we have a goal to change that. We’re focusing on one aspect of the disease: reduced blood flow in the brain. It’s a symptom that has been known for years, but until now, nobody knew why it happens.

Our collaborators recently discovered that stalls (clogged blood vessels in the brain) are responsible for this blood flow reduction in mice with Alzheimer’s. By reducing the number of stalls, the lab was able to restore memory and reduce other cognitive symptoms in mice.

But to fully understand how stalls are contributing to Alzheimer’s and discover potential treatment targets, we need to get through lots of data. We need your keen eyes for that - even the most powerful computer technologies can’t do that accurately enough yet. Without the help of the crowd, this process could take decades.

In Stall Catchers we “catch” stalls by looking at movies from the brain of mice and scoring blood vessels as “flowing” or “stalled”. The game is easy enough to learn, and we help you out in the beginning! And even if you get a couple of questions wrong - don’t worry. Each vessel will be seen by other citizen scientists so we can figure out the right answers together.

With your help, we could potentially find an effective treatment for Alzheimer's disease in just a few years - quick enough to make a difference in the lives of people who have the disease now.

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Help scientists analyze movies from the brain affected with Alzheimer’s - are the blood vessels flowing or stalled? Today, there is no treatment for Alzheimer’s. Together with researchers at Cornell University, we have a goal to change that. We’re focusing on one aspect of the disease: reduced blood flow in the brain. It’s a symptom that has been known for years, but until now, nobody knew why it happens. Our collaborators recently discovered that stalls (clogged blood vessels in the brain) are responsible for this blood flow reduction in mice with Alzheimer’s. By reducing the number of stalls, the lab …

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Comment on this post to share what you did as you completed a project with Stall Catchers.

*This does not count as "tracking" your Act of Science. This is a way to show other Girl Scouts what you did!

Please be sure to complete the Tracking Form (under the "READ ME FIRST" tab) to log your Act of Science!