San Francisco 49ers cheerleaders collect stadium microbes for Project MERCCURI, our citizen science research project.

by Darlene Cavalier | Aug 15, 2013 | Citizen Science, Events, ISS, Project MERCCURI, San Francisco 49ers, The Science Cheerleaders

Thanks to the San Francisco 49ers for enlisting the help of their cheerleaders (including Science Cheerleader, Tina) to collect microbes from the 49ers stadium! One of the lucky samples collected will head to the International Space Station for a research project...

Chemical engineer and Carolina Panthers cheerleader, Lindsey, leads citizen science project with Pop Warner cheerleaders.

by Bart Leahy | Aug 15, 2013 | Carolina Panthers, Citizen Science, Events, ISS, Pop Warner, Project MERCCURI, The Science Cheerleaders

This is a guest post from Science Cheerleader, Lindsey. I had the pleasure of visiting the Coastal Pop Warner Bengals Pee Wee Cheerleaders to assist them with collecting microbes for Project MERCCURI, a citizen science project the Science Cheerleaders are running in...

Project MERCCURI: Citizen scientists are sending microbes to space! [Project update.]

by Darlene Cavalier | Aug 15, 2013 | Citizen Science, Events, ISS

Project Update: Project MERCCURI is a collaboration of the UCDavis microBEnet with the Science Cheerleaders, UC Davis, Space Florida, Nanoracks,  and SciStarter .  There are three components to this research project: 1)  Space Station Microbiome. Collecting microbial...

Guest post from Science Cheerleader Talmesha and Junior Science Cheerleaders!

by Bart Leahy | Jul 13, 2013 | Events, Guest Blog Post, ISS, Project MERCCURI

Greetings Science Cheerleader Fans! Science Cheerleader, Dr. Talmesha,  here to tell you about a great event! On June 9, 2013 hundreds of kids and parents from Maryland and beyond converged upon Howard County Community College (HCCC) for the first annual Howard County...

Project MERCCURI microbe sampling at San Antonio Spurs game!

by Darlene Cavalier | Apr 16, 2013 | Blog, Events, ISS, NSTA conference, San Antonio Spurs game

This post is by David Coli and it originally appeared on MicroBE.net The Science Cheerleaders, in partnership with SciStarter and UC Davis, conducted our first large-scale public microbial sampling event for Project MERCCURI (a.k.a. Microbes in Spaaaace!) at the San...

San Antonio, here we come! Science Cheerleaders and citizen science at the National Science Teachers Assocation AND the Spurs game!

by Darlene Cavalier | Apr 5, 2013 | Blog, Events, ISS, NSTA conference, San Antonio Spurs game

Dionn, MBA, Former Warriors cheerleader Regina, Medical Doctor, Former Redskins Cheerleader Laura, I.T.,Former Spurs Cheerleader Meet Science Cheerleaders Dionn, Laura and Regina on April 11 at the National Science Teachers Association in San Antonio from 2-3 pm and...