USD 500 microgrants available for workshops, short courses

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Thank you all for participating in the review process, and for putting up with the administrative delay.

There were 24 microgrant applicants, with 20 participating in the review process. As there were 20 microgrants, all who participated in the review process will be awarded a USD500 microgrant, pending due diligence.

Here is the list of the 20 awardees, ranked with the most favourably reviewed at the top. You’ll be hearing from us, and please keep us posted!

  1. Digital Naturalism - Jungle Tech Workshop Series
  2. Hands-on workshop: Synthetic Biology application on plastic waste degradation
  3. Daykomb
  4. Soil Microscopy Workshop and bio-VJ Night
  5. Neuro4all
  6. MakerWare Design Programme
  7. Taller de termocicladores abiertos para educación universitaria.
  8. Environmental Science with micro:bit
  9. Jimbaran Fishing Communities Looking Closer with Foldscope
  10. Digital electronics for High School students of GBHS Pintchoumba
  11. Africa OSH Open Hardware Workshop
  12. Learning OSH through assembling
  13. Diving into open hardware data logging for small wind turbines
  14. OpenLAB - ESP8266-based Smart Irrigation system
  15. Introduction to Arduino kits in a scientific context
  16. Build a DIY ROV (Remote Operated Vehicle) Robot KIT for Under water Education
  17. RoboKids Boot Camp
  18. Owl Prowl by Wild Lives
  19. Open Hardware Meetup
  20. Africa Community forum for Open Science Hardware growth

The ordering of this list reflects the kind of short course or workshop that the community is interested in, and this will help us to more appropriately direct our focus in future calls.

Please do update us on the outcome of your event here on the forum! We aim to make this sort of microgrant call a regular thing, and your event updates will help in the review process when you apply in the next call.

Finally, thank you all for the optional comments that you provided during the review. One salient point was that it was hard to distinguish between science and general STEM events. This was reflected in the bimodal scores received by some applications. We’ll do some reflecting in this regard.

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