New tools, developed by SciStarter with support from the National Science Foundation,[1] enable citizen scientists to find, join, and track their contributions across projects and platforms.
[2] The organization received a grant from the Simons Foundation to create open, customizable, plug-and-play software tools for ease of use, including application programming interface (API) documentation.
[7] The activities included creating a less-expensive hail pad for a weather-related project,[8] creating methods of protecting sunflowers from animals before they are visited by bees,[9] helping encourage and remind participants to submit data for a plant observation project,[10] and finding low-cost methods for collecting and transmitting climate data wirelessly.
[11] In 2014, SciStarter partnered with the Science Cheerleaders and the Pop Warner Little Scholars organization to swab athletic shoes, smart phones, and other surfaces to identify the types of microbes growing in public spaces.
The Stall Catchers Megathon brings together thousands of people to classify 100,000 video images and complete an entire year's worth of analysis in one day.