Reactions included recruiting those who wrote pro-science letters to newspapers in order to generate a core group of activists.
Although these activists originally met to coordinate testimony before board meetings, a week prior to the actual BOE vote over the standards, KCFS was incorporated on August 8, 1999.
Holding a media conference on the steps of the Kansas Museum of Natural History the next day, they pledged to combat the anti-science activities of the board.
The board would vote 6-4 on on August 11, 1999 to approve creation science-friendly standards that minimized teaching the theories of evolution, the Big Bang, and geological time.
One result was the Citizens for Science movement, which seeks to promote communication and cooperation between KCFS-like entities in each state.