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1) Message boards : Chat : BOINC Competition for High School Students - Computation Moonshot (Message 2438)
Posted 13 Feb 2024 by the_sci
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The Science Commons Initiative is thrilled the launch the Computation Moonshot Competition!

The Computation Moonshot is a competition for high schools which encourages students to learn about data science, computer science, distributed computing, and a wide array of fields in science by having them contribute to real, useful outcomes for researchers in an exciting competitive atmosphere. We utilize the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) to connect students to groundbreaking scientific research projects around the world. This year we are running on the World Community Grid project which studies, among other topics: climate science, genetics, cancer, and tuberculosis. We call processing data for these research projects “crunching”.

Our goal in 2024 is to reach 50,000 donated hours of computation to research.

The competition is free to all and requires no special knowledge or skills. We provide setup guides for teachers and students, along with educational resources on the research to which your computers are contributing.

Compete for over $6,000 in prizes for schools and students, all while doing science!

More information on the competition, including how to register your high school, can be found at computationmoonshot.org

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2) Message boards : Chat : BOINC Census Results 2023 (Message 2433)
Posted 24 Jan 2024 by the_sci
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Who uses BOINC? Why? On what kinds of platforms? Check out what the community said about BOINC in 2023. Thank you to everybody who responded to the census this year!

https://thesciencecommons.org/BOINC/Census/2023/

Feel free to comment on the results in this post or share your thoughts in the BOINC Network discord , this forum, or wherever you connect with the network.

Get notified via e-mail when the census happens next year or follow us on Mastodon , Twitter , and Facebook . Check out our free e-mail newsletter on substack .

The census happens yearly and is run by the Science Commons Initiative, a 501(c)(3) non-profit public charity dedicated to rebuilding the bridge of trust and participation between the public and science.
3) Message boards : Chat : 2023 BOINC Census is here, please take 5 minutes to fill it out and make your voice heard! (Message 2421)
Posted 17 Nov 2023 by the_sci
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Apologies for the multiple posts, I can't seem to edit or delete the originals and my body text isn't showing there. I think emojis may be the reason why. Emojis removed now!

The BOINC Census is back for another year!

If you use BOINC, we want to hear your thoughts! Take the survey with the link below

Should only take 5 min and your response could help shape the future of the community

https://forms.fillout.com/t/n33grsgkeRus

The BOINC Census is a project of the Science Commons Initiative, a 501(c)(3) non-profit rebuilding the bridge of trust and participation between the public and science.

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Happy crunching!





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