You're invited to the Citizen Science Workshop at LA Makerspace.  A monthly series where researchers, teachers, and students can meet to collaborate on projects as well as develop new research which can be conducted in the classroom.

The theme this month is students and citizen science.

For this workshop we'll have a talk from Dylan Veccione, who help to found his own environmental monitoring non-profit Reefquest.  Then we'll go into some additional local projects students can get involved with in Los Angeles, such as the Natural History Museum's BioSCAN project.  Finally, we'll wrap up with a discussion of the new citizen science program for high school students starting at LA Makerspace.

Agenda

1. Meet and Greet

1. Ask attendees what brought them to the workshop.
2. What is the Citizen Science workshop. How does it work?

2. Research projects being presented:

1. 2:20pm - Reefquest (Being presented at the HCA)
2. 2:40pm - Safecast and large-scale data analysis in the classroom
3. 3:00pm - Measuring cosmic-ray with cellphones (DECO) 
4. 3:20pm - Measuring insect biodiversity with the Natural History Museum of LA (BioSCAN)

3. Breakout sessions

4:00pm - General Q&A 

1. Connect teachers and students with a given research group
2. Start designing collaborations
3. Introduce attendees to the summer research program

Please check the wiki for details on past workshops.

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DIRECTIONS
Public Transit
The Blue Line Grand Station at Washington and Grand is 2 blocks away, there are several bus stops within a block as well.

From LAX
Take the 105 East (Century Freeway) to the 110 North (Harbor Freeway). Exit on Adams. Turn right on Adams. Take Adams to Broadway, turn left. The L.A. Mart is at the corner of Broadway and Washington (1933 S. Broadway).

From San Fernando Valley
Take the 101 South (Ventura Freeway) to the 110 South (Harbor Freeway) to the 10 East (Santa Monica Freeway). Take the Grand Avenue exit, proceed to Broadway. Turn right on Broadway. Pass Washington Blvd. The L.A. Mart is on the right (1933 S. Broadway).

From San Gabriel Valley/Inland Empire
Take the 10 West (Santa Monica Freeway) or the 60 West (Pomona Freeway) to the 10 West. Take the Los Angeles Street exit. Take 17th Street to Broadway. Turn left on Broadway. The LA Mart is at the corner of Broadway and Washington (1933 S. Broadway).

From Long Beach/Orange County
Take the 5 (Santa Ana/Golden State Freeway) to the 10 West (Santa Monica Freeway). Take the Los Angeles Street exit. Take 17th Street to Broadway. Turn left on Broadway. The L.A. Mart is at the corner of Broadway and Washington (1933 S. Broadway).

PARKING
1,126 on-site and adjacent visitor, tenant and employee parking spaces
$10.00 – Monday through Sunday, $5 after 4pm, plenty of street parking, meters as applicable.

NOTE: Parking on Hill Street is FREE on Sunday

ENTRANCE
Entry on Saturday and Sundays and Weekdays after 6pm is through the Employee Entrance to the left of the main LA Mart doors.