Just a quick update on the progress of the ScienceBlogs/DonorsChoose raise-money-to-help-science-classrooms-a-thon:
- At last check (as I’m composing this post), across all the Sb blogs participating in the challenge, readers have donated more than $3000. That’s a strong start, readers!
- The bloggers at The World’s Fair are going to try to get you to donate to their challenge by promising, for a donation of $10 or more, to publish a science haiku of your composition in The Science Creative Quarterly. Is that fair?
- If you would like to help a particular geographical region, it’s worth combing through the participating bloggers’ challenges. For example, Mike Dunford of The Questionable Authority has set up a challenge aimed at helping classrooms in the Bronx. And I’m just betting that Coturnix’s challenge and Abel PharmBoy’s challenge include some worthy North Carolina proposals!
- Do cognitive science blogs have better readers, or do biology blogs? We’ll have to watch the progress of the challenges from the cog sci camp and the biology beach-head to find out for sure! If you’ve got a horse in that particular race, it’s time to represent.
- If you give, you might just get! Don’t forget to forward your confirmation email from DonorsChoose to sb.donorschoose.bonanza@gmail.com if you would like to enter the drawing for the fabulous prizes!
You folks are the best!
(The full list of participating bloggers, and links to their challenges, after the jump.)
Here are the ScienceBlogs bloggers who are participating with Bloggers Challenges:
A Blog Around the Clock (challenge here)
Adventures in Ethics and Science (challenge here)
Aetiology (challenge here)
Afarensis (challenge here)
Cognitive Daily (challenge here)
Evolgen (challenge here)
Gene Expression (challenge here)
Good Math, Bad Math (challenge here)
Island of Doubt (challenge here)
Mike the Mad Biologist (challenge here)
Neurotopia, version 2.0 (challenge here)
Pharyngula (challenge here)
Pure Pedantry (challenge here)
The Questionable Authority (challenge here)
The Scientific Activist (challenge here)
Stranger Fruit (challenge here)
Terra Sigillata (challenge here)
Uncertain Principles (challenge here)
The World’s Fair (challenge here)
I’m sorry … It’s Coturnix’s fault for renaming his blogs. My bookmarks are alphabetical and his comes first. And I didn’t read anything yesterday, so the first thing I saw on his blog was a short reminder … and I donated all I can afford over on his blog before I realized it was a competition. I could have spread it out over a bunch of blogs and still funded the proposal I liked! Sorry, guys – all of you are great!
Helping Schools Help Kids – the Science Blog Way
These are things specific teachers from specific classes need. I know you can find something you’ll want to help support. Run over now and help some kids get ahead.