Program Description
Event Details
The Stall Catchers Megathon is a one-hour online game that allows thousands of participants to help complete a year’s worth of Alzheimer’s research at Cornell University. The La Jolla/Riford Library is one of 9 libraries around the country chosen to help plan and evaluate this citizen science project. You can become a citizen scientist and help researchers by analyzing movies of blood vessels in live mouse brains and identifying vessels as flowing or stalled. Anyone can participate, from kids to their grandparents, and no specific knowledge or scientific background is required.
Plus, join us as part of a bid to get in the Guinness Book of World Records for ‘largest practical science lesson (multiple venues)’ that currently stands at a highly attainable 13,701 participating individuals.
Game registration required. To register (& find out more about Stall Catchers), join our team, ’SD Library’s Finest CITYzens’, so your participation will be credited to the library project. You can participate at home or elsewhere, but if you’d like to join us at the library please bring a laptop, tablet or smart phone (stallcatchers.com on any browser)—we only have 35 computers for participants to use. First-come, first-served.
Megathon Schedule:
10:30 – 11:00 a.m. All participants will sign in their Stall Catchers account
11 a.m. – 12 p.m. All hands on deck (or keyboards!)
12 – 12:30 p.m. Stall Catchers will report our results!
Hope to see you at the library!