USAGSO Catch-A-Thon
Did you know… Citizen Science is one of GSUSA’s 7 (inter)national service projects?!? USAGSO is excited to help our girls explore citizen science and contribute to Alzheimer’s research by partnering with Stall Catchers in the lead up to Giving Tuesday.
How can you play a part in solving some of the biggest problems facing our planet? Enter citizen science, where volunteers help scientists collect data for their studies and experiments. Anyone can be a citizen scientist—all you need is curiosity and a willingness to help!
Stall Catchers is an online game that anyone can play - no experience necessary. In the game, you look at movies from the brains of mice and try to identify vessels as flowing or stalled. This helps to speed up Alzheimer's disease research at Cornell University. Anyone can play this online game — no experience necessary. Currently, catchers range from 6 to 88 years old. A large part of the Stall Catchers community includes middle school students, seniors, caregivers, and even Alzheimer’s patients themselves.
Win Awesome Prizes
The game is easy to grasp! We will walk you through how to sign-up and play during these info sessions. Don't worry about making mistakes — each blood vessel is analyzed by multiple catchers, which ensures reliable crowd answers are generated in the end.
Can’t attend live? No worries! Please be sure to still sign up for one of the sessions – we will send the recording to all registrants.
To incent our Girl Scouts to catch them all, there will be several prizes up for grabs during our Catch-A-Thon!
- All Girl Scouts Overseas who log 10+ hours will receive a custom Girl Scout/Stall Catchers patch.
- The top-5 individual catchers (the 5 Girl Scouts Overseas with the most hours logged) will win a Citizen Science book pack with The Field Guide to Citizen Science: How You Can Contribute to Scientific Research and Make a Difference and Citizen Scientists: Be a Part of Scientific Discovery from Your Own Backyard.
- The overseas country that logs the most hours will win an exclusive meet and greet with the Stall Catchers team where girls will not only hear from the creators of Stall Catchers and be able to ask questions but will also help design the first-ever Girl Scout/Stall Catchers patch!
Prize winners will be announced via a special video message and shared with all participants on Giving Tuesday.
Catch-A-Thon Flier
Looking to promote the Catch-A-Thon among your Girl Scout Troop or Overseas Committee? Download and share this flier.
DOWNLOADDon’t want to wait to get started catching? Sign up and join a USAGSO team in 5 easy steps!
- Head to https://stallcatchers.com/ and click the orange, ‘Join now!’ button.
- Choose a username and enter your email address, then click the orange, ‘Sign up’ button. Be sure to watch your email for instructions on setting your password.
- Once logged in, click on your name in the top right corner and then select ‘Teams.’
- Type ‘USAGSO’ in the search bar – once you see your country on the list, click it!
- And, finally, click the green, ‘Join’ button to do just that… Join!
