If you’re familiar with “hackathons” - intense hacking marathons, or “mapathons” - mapping parties commonly held by mappers worldwide, the term “catchathon” might be starting to make some sense by now. If not - read on. There’s a marathon of Alzheimer’s citizen science coming on July 22nd, and you can be part of it!By Egle Marija Ramanauskaite, Citizen Science Coordinator at EyesOnALZ
Stall Catchers pizza party at the Lake Hazel Middle School, which brought the “Middle School STEM” team to victory in the recent #CrushALZ competition! Stall Catchers is a citizen science game accelerating promising Alzheimer's research at Cornell University. Launched as part of the EyesOnALZ project in late 2016, the game now has over 5000 participants. But it is important to us to keep increasing international participation! And that’s where the idea for a global catchathon came from. If there’s one thing we’ve learned in the past ten months ...
