USD 500 microgrants available for workshops, short courses

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  1. Your name, and that of your organisation (or the organisation that will receive funds on your behalf).

Derrick Mugasia,
IOMe254 Innovation Lab
Kenya Red Cross Society

  1. Name of event. Make another post with another event name if you have another event.

Build a DIY ROV (Remote Operated Vehicle) Robot KIT for Under water Education

3. Email address by which you may be contacted.

mugasia.derrick@redcross.or.ke
derrickmugasia@gmail.com

4. What open science hardware tool(s) will be the focus of your event?

OpenROV
Open-Source Electronics
Arduino
3D Printing

5. Describe your course or workshop, whom and what it is for, where and when it will be held, how many attendees (IRL or virtual) you expect.

One of our fablabs (I.O.Me005) is a community-based space located in Lamu a rural coastal town in Kenya. Part of our primary goals is to provide access to digital fabrication tools and technological skills necessary to promote problem solving and innovation within the community trageting children, the youth and artisans.

Our proposed workshop involves building a DIY ROV Kit that will introduce primary and secondary students to under water robot education while engaging them to STEM concepts such as Fluid buoyancy, Ohms Law, underwater thrust and water proofing design among others. Additionally, the Workshop will expose the learners to DIY process of assembling products as well as basics of digital fabrication processes. The kit will demonstrate to participants how they can use locally available materials coupled with Open-science hardware to create relevant learning STEM kits and marine related solutions especially being a community that stays next to the ocean.

We target to host a total of 15 students for a one-day workshop where learner will build and test the ROV. The workshop will be held during the first week of May 2023 as the students will be home for holidays away from their regular school programs. Preparations will however be done in April in order to engage with the school authorities and the identification of participants.

6. Do you have plans for ongoing activities after this event OR is it intended that the participants will continue activities after this event? If so, describe the intentions and plans here.

We have been building and developing projects, curriculum and kits aimed at promoting STEM Education and introducing digital fabrication technologies to learners (including those with special needs). The DIY ROV kit will become one of the kits and will help students to enhance problem solving and learning of underwater robots for marine exploration owing to our location at the coastal region.

These kits will then be used as part of the activities spearheaded by the Red Cross Clubs available in most local schools but also for implementation of workshops hosted by the IOMe254 labs.

7. What event outputs (e.g. teaching materials, curricula, software, etc.) will you make available? Will these outputs carry an open license?

We will make available the plans used to assemble the DIY ROV and workshop manuals used to effectively conduct the workshop.

8. What you will use the grant for, roughly.

Materials – 252 $
Facilitation – 127 $
Conference package - 91$
Transport & Logistics – 30 $

9. Provide links (references) to documentation or reviews of similar events or works you have executed. School coursework or projects can be listed, even social media posts. Anything to give a sense of what you’re about and your ability to successfully conduct this course or workshop. To keep this short, just the links and their descriptions will do.

https://twitter.com/KenyaRedCross/status/1502258012676923397?s=20

https://twitter.com/YSTKenya/status/1549776648580497408?s=20

https://twitter.com/iome254/status/1568258432142086145?s=20

https://twitter.com/iome254/status/1623252274288926720?s=20

https://twitter.com/iome254/status/1614134554054328321?s=20

https://twitter.com/iome254/status/1501210398229422092?s=20

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  1. Your name, and that of your organisation (or the organisation that will receive funds on your behalf). Lee Wilkins, co-executive director of Little Dada

  2. Name of event. Make another post with another event name if you have another event.
    EUDL (Extremely Underfunded Dadalist Lab) Art/Science Station Project

  3. Email address by which you may be contacted. hello@leecyb.org

  4. What open science hardware tool(s) will be the focus of your event?
    Open Flexure, Processing/P5JS + Open CV. Previous versions of this workshop included a purchased microscope, we are hoping to be able to use open source technology this year. With this grant we will be able to expand the workshop to produce printed visual outputs of what is photographed.

  5. Describe your course or workshop, whom and what it is for, where and when it will be held, how many attendees (IRL or virtual) you expect.
    This workshop will be held in Muskoka Ontario during an artists retreat where digital media artists will be guided through a microscope exploration of the forest. The workshop will consist of 8 Southern Ontario artists whos work intersects with print based media. Artists will embark on a trip with a canoe along a series of lakes to find unique plants and photograph it in the field with an Open Flexure microscope. Following this, we will bring photos into p5js with Open CV and manipulate these images using code. The results will be printed and exhibited, as well as displayed. Code used to manipulate the images will be documented in github. Beyond a route planned that visits a diversity of locations along the lake (A marsh, an island, a mossy cove, a beach), participants are encouraged to gather and explore items under the microscope as they wish and there is little structured time while exploring. There will be slides, dissection tools and stains available but the activity is largely open ended. After this, photos will be collected virtually for a hands-on coding workshop to produce prints.

  6. Do you have plans for ongoing activities after this event OR is it intended that the participants will continue activities after this event? If so, describe the intentions and plans here.
    The goal is to teach artists a new skill which they can incorporate into their practice as well as expose them to lab-grade tools that are often not accessible to artists. The intention is to provide an opportunity to integrate this into their work going forward.

  7. What event outputs (e.g. teaching materials, curricula, software, etc.) will you make available? Will these outputs carry an open licence?
    Results of the workshop will be documented publicly on Little Dada’s social media and digital channels. We will print 15 copies of work for each artist which they can sell, donate, or promote. The aim is to have artists gain new skills to integrate and develop into their visual artistic practice. There will be a github repository with code used to edit their photos. Teaching materials for the code portion will also be shared on GitHub to show other artists how to use OpenCV to modify their microscope photos.

  8. What you will use the grant for, roughly.

  • 100$ Travel costs from artists (Toronto to Muskoka)
  • 200$ Open Flexure V7
  • 200$ solar power source
  1. Provide links (references) to documentation or reviews of similar
    events or works you have executed. School coursework or projects
    can be listed, even social media posts. Anything to give a sense
    of what you’re about and your ability to successfully conduct this
    course or workshop. To keep this short, just the links and their descriptions will do.
    https://photos.app.goo.gl/wUSdwjvP7T8wh9sU9 The first run of this workshop without any photographing and not using open source tools.
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Application: OScH PCR for the University Classroom

  1. Your name, and that of your organization (or the organization that will receive funds on your behalf).
    • Nicolás Méndez.
    • FUNDACEN (fiscal sponsor).
  2. Name of event.
    • Taller de termocicladores abiertos para educación universitaria.
  3. Email address by which you may be contacted.
  4. What open science hardware tool(s) will be the focus of your event?
    • Open hardware thermocyclers for PCR and related DNA amplification techniques.
  5. Describe your course or workshop:
    • Whom and what it is for: The workshop is aimed at professors from the Universidad Nacional de San Martin (UNSAM), a public university in the metropolitan area of Buenos Aires. They will be introduced to open hardware PCR equipment, and collaborate to adapt the equipment to their molecular biology courses. The goal is to bring Open Hardware PCR to the teaching labs, which operate under a very limited budget, and either rely on third-party equipment or skip the PCR experiment entirely.
    • Where and when it will be held: The first edition of this workshop will be carried out in the university’s teaching biolab, at the end of the current semester (June-July 2023).
    • How many attendees (IRL or virtual) you expect: 4-5 university professors IRL.
  6. Do you have plans for ongoing activities after this event OR is it intended that the participants will continue activities after this event? If so, describe the intentions and plans here.
    • A successful workshop will provide university courses with OScH PCR equipment for their teaching labs, introducing over 200-400 students per year to open labware technology. If the impact is high, we will consider manufacturing the thermocyclers locally (e.g. at TECSCI) and organize a second edition of the workshop for other public universities (e.g. FCEN-UBA) and/or academic labs (IIBio-UNSAM, IFIBYNE-UBA).
    • If not incorporated to a teching lab, the equipment will be used to run workshops for academic labs, with a similar overall objective. This can happen if the university decides to acquire or manufacture the OScH equipment, which will be encoraged.
  7. What event outputs (e.g. teaching materials, curricula, software, etc.) will you make available? Will these outputs carry an open license?
    • A teacher’s and student’s guide will be written in spanish, with instructions for using the OScH thermocycler in university courses. The guides will be made available under the terms of the CC-BY-SA license.
  8. What you will use the grant for, roughly.
    • The microgrant will be used to acquire OScH thermocyclers (either PocketPCR, NinjaPCR, or equivalent) to carry out the workshop. Additional reagents and equipment are already available.
    • OScH PCR equipment (option 1): 4 PocketPCR units, 100 EUR each, plus costs from shipping and customs. Local manufacturing can be considered as an alternative if the import cannot be carried out.
  9. Provide links (references) to documentation or reviews of similar events or works you have executed.
    • This is the first time this workshop will be carried out. A similar workshop took place during January in Valdivia, organized by the Chilean reGOSH node; link.
    • From personal experience as a university student and teacher, and the ongoing relationships with colleagues at UNSAM, I believe that this will be an impactful workshop. It has the potential to bring open science hardware to the classrooms of several public universities and hundreds of students, which otherwise only interact with closed/proprietary equipment.

Best!

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@naikymen I would be glad to be one of the university professors participating in your session. I have a couple of Dr. Urs Gaudenz’s PocketPCRs, but my chemical engineering (and even many of my biomedical engineering) students don’t know PCR. If I could have an easy way to get them up to speed, that would be a great benefit!
Best regards,
Jim Brenner
Florida Tech Chemical Engineering

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1. Your name, and that of your organisation

Name: Ogunbayo Ibrahim A
Organization: HIC mikroLAB

2. Name of event. Make another post with another event name if you have another event.

OpenLAB - ESP8266-based Smart Irrigation system

3. Email Address:

Email: hibeetech@gmail.com, support@hicmikrolab.com.ng

4. What open science hardware tool(s) will be the focus of your event?

Ender 3 Pro 3D Printer
CNC Machines
Arduino Board
ESP826, ESP32 Development board
Raspberry Pi

5. Describe your course or workshop, whom and what it is for, where and when it will be held,
how many attendees (IRL or virtual) you expect.

The workshop will focus on building an ESP8266-based Smart Irrigation system with pump control, soil moisture sensors, and real-time monitoring of temperature and humidity over a Lora network. The target audience for this workshop includes farmers, secondary school graduates, and tertiary institution students. The training will take place at HIC mikroLAB in Abeokuta, Nigeria. The workshop is designed for a minimum of 15 and a maximum of 25 participants.

6. Do you have plans for ongoing activities after this event OR is it intended that the
participants will continue activities after this event? If so, describe the intentions and plans here.

The workshop training is structured in three stages: Beginners, Intermediate, and Expert. Trainees are given the freedom to choose their preferred entry level, depending on their current knowledge of the training hardware tools. As such, the training is a continuous cycle where trainees progress from Beginners to Intermediate, and ultimately to Expert level. Upon completing the Expert level, trainees will deploy the developed smart device to their respective homes for practical and real-time use.

7. What event outputs (e.g. teaching materials, curricula, software, etc.) will you make available?
Will these outputs carry an open license?

We will make available the plans used to assemble the DIY ESP8266 based Smart Irrigation system
and workshop manuals used to effectively conduct the workshop.

8. What you will use the grant for, roughly.

USD 200 - Hardware parts/Kits procurement

  • LORA modules & sensors
  • ESP8266 Wemos Mini
  • 2 Channels Relay module
  • DHT22 Temperature Humidity Sensor
  • Soil Moisture Sensor
  • Soil PH sensor
  • PETG 3D Filament
  • DC water Pump

USD 120 - Training packages
USD 85 - Power & Refreshments
USD 75 - Logistics & Technical Support
USD 20 - Internet connectivity

9. Provide links (references) to documentation or reviews of similar events or works you have executed.
School coursework or projects can be listed, even social media posts. Anything to give a sense of what
you’re about and your ability to successfully conduct this course or workshop. To keep this short,
just the links and their descriptions will do.

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One thing I want to adjust in this – we’ve decided to license the lessons from this series of workshops under a creative commons BY-NC-SA license, and make those lessons freely available on our site.

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Here are the available links of previous workshops and training held in the past.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/yHRnV9sALS2ZPRJY7

https://twitter.com/HIC_mikrolab/status/1246366650842177538?s=20

https://twitter.com/HIC_mikrolab/status/1019557734977605633?s=20

https://twitter.com/HIC_mikrolab/status/977858408257814529?s=20

https://twitter.com/HIC_mikrolab/status/977638735897681920?s=20

https://twitter.com/Lemmafire/status/854736404592644096?s=20

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  1. Name: TOKO KOUTOGUI Abdoul kafid, .
  2. Name of event: Africa Community forum for Open Science Hardware growth
  3. Email address : toko@openhardware.science
    4. What open science hardware tool(s) will be the focus of your event?

This event will focus on the general development process of open Science hardware tools in Africa.

5. Describe your course or workshop, whom and what it is for, where and when it will be held, how many attendees (IRL or virtual) you expect.

In order to strengthen actions related to the development of the African Open Science Hardware community, we want to organize this community forum to collectively reflect and identify the causes that explain how the movement has evolved in Africa and to identify the possible courses of action for improvement. To do so,we have identified people working specifically on Open Science Hardware in Africa . We were able to identify 16 potential participants for this workshop.

We will therefore use the Ishikawa diagram to deconstruct the problem and then proceed to a second activity to clearly articulate the requirements of the solution(s) we are seeking to advance Open Science Hardware in Africa.

6. Do you have plans for ongoing activities after this event OR is it intended that the participants will continue activities after this event? If so, describe the intentions and plans here.

Following this activity, we want to be able to identify the right strategy to propose to the GOSH management to develop new actions such as:

  • Open innovation events bring an opportunity to do science hackathons in Africa ? - to connect makers with science
  • Connect makers in Africa with manufacturing in EU and China
  • Partnerships with teachers is essential to have more open science hardware tools in classrooms

7. What event outputs (e.g. teaching materials, curricula, software, etc.) will you make available? Will these outputs carry an open licence?

The event will first provide data on the collective thinking related to the deconstruction of the problem through the collaborative work files we created (the Ishiwaka diagram). We will also produce a theory of change available to any person or organization wishing to develop a future Open Science Hardware development program in Africa.

8. What you will use the grant for, roughly.

The grant will help us pay for:

  • 3 Facilitators/note taker for the workshop
  • 1 Expert to draft the Theory of change
  • 1 Graphic designer to create communications material for the workshop and it output

9. Provide links (references) to documentation or reviews of similar
events or works you have executed. School coursework or projects
can be listed, even social media posts. Anything to give a sense
of what you’re about and your ability to successfully conduct this
course or workshop. To keep this short, just the links and their descriptions will do.

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  1. Your name, and that of your organisation (or the organisation that will receive funds on your behalf).

Name: María Castelló

Name of the organization: Art & Neuroscience & Technology for Kids (ANT4Kids https://ant.net.uy/ant4kids/), Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas Clemente Estable (IIBCE), Girls in Tech Uruguay (https://uruguay.girlsintech.org/) and Fibras (Fibras.org https://fibras.org/).

  1. Name of event: Neuro4all

  2. Email address by which you may be contacted: maritacastello@gmail.com

  3. What open science hardware tool(s) will be the focus of your event?
    Neuroscience and Microscopy low-cost devices ( openUC2 (openUC2 · GitHub)Spikeling, Backyard Brains, and Foldscope https://foldscope.com/, Spikeling open source hardware in silico spiking neurons

  4. Describe your course or workshop, whom and what it is for, where and when it will be held, how many attendees (IRL or virtual) you expect.

ANT4Kids organizes hands-on and practical workshops for teachers, children and families on neuroscience and microscopy. We seek to boost society’s interest in these disciplines and encourage the use of low-cost devices in the classroom for performing project-based learning.

Neuro4all will be a 1-day workshop for 30 primary school students and 2 teachers and will take place at Ceilab - Espacio Ciencia (Ceilab – Espacio Ciencia). The team has experience developing this workshop at several locations.

The workshop will be held within the framework of the Uruguayan Science and Technology Week (https://semanacyt.org.uy/), and will be one of a series of events promoting kids’ STEM vocation, focusing on girls.

In accordance with the GOSH Code of Conduct, we aim to “make open science hardware open to everybody”, in particular to primary school students and teachers from unprivileged public schools. We also seek to make open science accessible to everybody despite gender identity and sexual orientation so as to achieve diverse teams. Participating schools will be selected from low-income locations around Montevideo city.

Main aims:

i) To promote a broad advance in the access of Uruguayan primary students to open science hardware in Microscopy and Neuroscience.

ii) To promote interest in Neurosciences through the use of low-cost technologies, facilitating interdisciplinary-multidisciplinary, collaborative work, and encouraging “learning by doing”.

iii) Allow girls, boys and teachers to become aware of the role of the brain in cognitive functions, especially in learning, leading to the development of metacognition.

iv) In the medium/long term, this proposal aims to promote awareness about brain care.

v) To study the impact of access to open hardware in the development of didactic action sequences for the teaching of Neurosciences, facilitating didactic tools.

vi) Research the impact of these activities on the social image of scientists and the role of women in science.

  1. Do you have plans for ongoing activities after this event OR is it intended that the participants will continue activities after this event? If so, describe the intentions and plans here.

With this workshop, we will encourage teachers to use the devices at school and teach children what kind of experiments can be done. Therefore, we expect that this workshop will be the first step for a student´s project. Teachers will receive a device in order to continue activities in the classroom, and we will keep in touch for mentoring teachers on the use of the device for their classes.

  1. What event outputs (e.g. teaching materials, curricula, software, etc.) will you make available? Will these outputs carry an open license?

The hardware that will be used in the workshop will be open source and have an open license.

We will make available the following devices:

  1. What you will use the grant for, roughly.

We will acquire the following equipment and parts:

  1. Minibox (UC2) (9) (USD 270)

  2. Electronic parts for Spikeling (open source hardware in silico spiking neurons).

  3. DIY Muscle SpikerShield (US 64.99 per unit)

  4. Large Muscle Electrodes (US 34.99 per unit)

  5. Shipment - USD 95
    Total: 498.38

  6. Provide links (references) to documentation or reviews of similar
    events or works you have executed. School coursework or projects
    can be listed, even social media posts. Anything to give a sense
    of what you’re about and your ability to successfully conduct this
    course or workshop. To keep this short, just the links and their descriptions will do.

In the following links we shared document of previous Workshops on Microscopy and Neurosciences with low-tech/low-cost/DIY technology, for the diverse public:

Piriápolis
https://www.maldonado.gub.uy/noticias/taller-neurociencias-casa-cultura-piriapolis
CampusParty ¡Participamos del Campus Party 2022! - uruguay
Vacations En estas vacaciones el Instituto Clemente Estable te espera – El Popular
ScienceSpace Taller de Neurociencias con Tecnologías de Bajo Costo – Espacio Ciencia
Ceibal https://twitter.com/search?q=taller%20microscopía%20ceilab&src=typed_query
ODS https://twitter.com/MaritaCastello/status/1573441361688535041?s=20&t=6yA3vcZmYmxEcUtjT-25wQ
OpenDoors Jornadas de puertas abiertas en el Instituto - 1º de octubre de 14 a 20 h - 22º IIBCE Abierto | Ministerio de Educación y Cultura
Event of Girls in Tech Uruguay ¨Jugar Mundos¨, where we participated Jugar Mundos 2022 - YouTube
A completed list can be found at: https://ant.net.uy/ant4kids/

Best wishes!

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Your name, and that of your organisation (or the organisation that will receive funds on your behalf).

Rupesh Bhattarai

Habeli Outdoors Learning Center

Name of event. Make another post with another event name if you have another event.

Environmental Science with micro:bit

Email address by which you may be contacted.

mailsikaru@gmail.com

What open science hardware tool(s) will be the focus of your event?

BBC micro:bit and environment sensors.

Describe your course or workshop, whom and what it is for, where and when it will be held, how many attendees (IRL or virtual) you expect.

The workshop is intended for teachers working in schools in Kathmandu. We plan to invite around 25-30 science teachers from around 15 schools. We will be running this workshop in the school where I am currently working.

We want to focus on two major ideas during the workshop.

  1. Outdoor science education, 2. and integrating open-source hardware(mico:bit) to learn from nature.

Brief plan:

Pre-workshop: Teachers interested in the workshop register for the workshop.

Day 1(4 hours): Introduction to open-science hardware and examples of their various applications. Introduction to micro:bit. Exploring different sensors and their uses. Conversation on the potential of a community of teachers exploring open-science hardware in their classrooms. Day 2(4 hours): Using sensors and micro:bit to gather environmental data. A guided activity followed by sharing challenges, insights, and takeaways. Brainstorming the use of micro:bit in lessons in the classroom. Followed by reflection.

Post-workshop: Teachers sign up for the community of teachers exploring open-science hardware.

Do you have plans for ongoing activities after this event OR is it intended that the participants will continue activities after this event? If so, describe the intentions and plans here.

A major motivation behind having this workshop for teachers is that they will continue integrating these ideas in their classrooms. Having a registration link for self-motivated teachers will ensure that the teachers will actually integrate these ideas in their classrooms and also share their reflections with the rest of the teachers.

A rather ambitious aspiration is also that we could have this community of teachers actively participating in the open-science hardware community and we can learn from each other.

What event outputs (e.g. teaching materials, curricula, software, etc.) will you make available? Will these outputs carry an open licence?

We will share the workshop plans. We also intend to create a community of science teachers using micro:bit and other open-source tools in their classrooms who will share their work with the community. We will encourage teachers to share these to open-source platforms.

What you will use the grant for, roughly.

Micro:bits - 10*25$

Sensors: 150$ (various different kinds)

Workshop refreshment: 50$

Printing and other possible costs: 50$ (This includes the costs we might have to make to invite motivated teachers to the workshop, for example, a sponsored social media post with a registration form, phone calls, and text messages)

Provide links (references) to documentation or reviews of similar events or works you have executed. School coursework or projects can be listed, even social media posts. Anything to give a sense of what you’re about and your ability to successfully conduct this course or workshop. To keep this short, just the links and their descriptions will do.

A hike for students during a camp to explore an abandoned marble factory and the varieties of butterflies found in the area.

A webinar for teachers to integrate the 5E model of instruction in their virtual classrooms.

Facilitating a workshop for teachers on critical thinking in the classroom.

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  1. Your name, and that of your organisation (or the organisation that will receive funds on your behalf).

Lukas Ferber, ERNI e.V.

  1. Name of event. Make another post with another event name if you have another event.

Diving into open hardware data logging for small wind turbines

  1. Email address by which you may be contacted.

luk@erni-kollektiv.org

  1. What open science hardware tool(s) will be the focus of your event?

windkit, a small wind winturbine
oswilog, datalogger for small windturbines

  1. Describe your course or workshop, whom and what it is for, where and when it will be held, how many attendees (IRL or virtual) you expect.

The windkit is our OSH small wind turbine kit and mainly used for scientific and educational purposes in our past workshops with our association ERNI e.V… The workshop will focus on the question how to to acquire and visualize performance data from small wind turbines. The event will take place in the colorlabor (Kassel, Germany) during May 2023 and ist open to all who are interested in open source data logging and have a basic understanding in electronic circuits and programming. We will work with 5-10 participants in a 1 day workshop.
We will give a hands-on introduction to Open Source Hardware with a prototype of windkit, the tools used, our development process and licensing issues. Participants will build tools on how to acquire performance data from the windkit using various sensors as well as environmental data and working with and on the windkit-datalogger. windkit-datalogger is in early stage and based on the Open Small Wind Logger (OSWiLog) project. Finally, they work with tools to visualize data, calculate power curves based on the collected data. Participants are invited to join the development of windkit-datalogger by making commits to the hardware design and software code.

  1. Do you have plans for ongoing activities after this event OR is it intended that the participants will continue activities after this event? If so, describe the intentions and plans here.

Interested participants are invited to join the windkit project, especially the windkit-datalogger. We will hold further wind turbine curses based on the work of this event.

  1. What event outputs (e.g. teaching materials, curricula, software, etc.) will you make available? Will these outputs carry an open license?

The output will be a repository featuring the software code and the hardware designs of the windkit-datalogger, based on the work participants have achieved in the workshop. The repository will be released under a open license (CERN-OHL-S-2.0).

  1. What you will use the grant for, roughly.

-$250 Allowance for trainers
-$150 Hardware (sensors, microcontrollers, ect.)
-$50 Makerspace rend
-$50 Snacks

  1. Provide links (references) to documentation or reviews of similar
    events or works you have executed.

Worshops:
Reutlingen SoSe 19 – ERNI e.V.
Windenergie in Sierra Leone – ERNI e.V.
Windradworkshop in Reutlingen – ERNI e.V.
windkit:
https://twitter.com/windkit_cc/
erni / windkit · GitLab
1.Introduction · Wiki · erni / windkit · GitLab

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1. Your name, and that of your organisation (or the organisation that will receive funds on your behalf).

Nurul Izzati, Universitas Teknologi Sumbawa

Roudlotul Jannah, SynBio 101, iGEM Community

Sakti Subramanian, SynBio 101, iGEM Community

Richard Jiang, SynBio 101, iGEM Community

2. Name of event. Make another post with another event name if you have another event.

Hands-on workshop: Synthetic Biology application on plastic waste degradation

3. Email address by which you may be contacted.

Nurul - nurul.izzati@uts.ac.id

Jannah - rjannah.id@gmail.com

4. What open science hardware tool(s) will be the focus of your event?

  • Foldscope for microplastics and planktons observation of Brang Biji river water sample. The goal is to raise the awareness of the highschool students about the plastic waste effect on river water.
  • SynBio 101 kit and modules for synthetic biology technique introduction. The high school students will be given the opportunity to learn about synthetic biology in tackling the plastic pollution problem. They will also get the opportunity to experience the lab work using the kit.

5. Describe your course or workshop, whom and what it is for, where and when it will be held, how many attendees (IRL or virtual) you expect.

Samota or Saleh, Moyo, and Tambora have been appointed by UNESCO as one of the biosphere reserves in 2018 that is located in Sumbawa region, West Nusa Tenggara. It requires effort from the government and the local people in preserving the biosphere. However, the poor plastic waste management has been one of the biggest problems in the preservation. The lack of awareness of people about the plastic waste management is one of the contributing factors of plastic accumulation in the environment such as found in Brang Biji river that will end up in Sumbawa coastline.

Therefore, the Faculty of Life Science and Technology, Universitas Teknologi Sumbawa intend to raise the awareness of plastic waste to the local community starting with high school students through hands-on workshops and river clean up in collaboration with SynBio 101, Synbio.id, and Foldscope Network ID. There will be 50 high school and 25 undergraduate students participating in this event that will be held on 3-6 May 2023 at Universitas Teknologi Sumbawa and Brang Biji river. The students will have the opportunity to observe microplastic in the river water using Foldscope as they learn the importance of minimising the plastic usage on a daily basis. This activity will be followed by river cleaning around the Brang Biji river stream and introduction of synthetic biology application on plastic waste degradation. The students will also get the opportunity to try the SynBio 101 kits and get familiarised with the synthetic biology application.

6. Do you have plans for ongoing activities after this event OR is it intended that the participants will continue activities after this event? If so, describe the intentions and plans here.

SynBio 101 and Synbio.id are planning to do similar events collaborating with other institutions from other cities in Indonesia. In the near future, possible collaboration will be done with SynBio UB (synthetic biology community in Brawijaya University) that is currently trying to establish a synthetic biology community. We are also planning to reach out and collaborate with the local organisations that are concerned about plastic waste that have regular programs in giving education about waste management to the local communities. The target audience will be high school students that will be given the opportunity to observe river water with Foldscope and learn synthetic biology from the modules and kits.

7. What event outputs (e.g. teaching materials, curricula, software, etc.) will you make available? Will these outputs carry an open licence?

The students will be introduced to the main problem, plastic pollution in the Brang Biji river on day 1. The activity is followed by the water sampling from the river and observation using Foldscope on day 2. They will create a poster about their findings and present it on day 3 that is continued with an introduction about synthetic biology using the SynBio 101 kit and module.

SynBio 101 will develop a module and kit for the workshop. These materials are part of SynBio 101 open hardware project creation that will be distributed to students. For this event, the modules and kits are customised to fit the goal and schedule of the workshop.

Details:

The instructional modules include:

  1. Introduction to Synthetic Biology
  2. Introduction to Plasmids and Circuits
  3. Introduction to Viruses and Phages
  4. Concerns about Biotechnology
  5. Biosecurity and Biosafety

The modules hardware (H) workshops include:

  1. Gel Electrophoresis (H)
  2. Cell and Plasmid Preparation (H)
  3. Transformation Protocols (H)
  4. Polymerase Chain Reaction (H)

Example of Past Implementation (Modified Scope):

8. What you will use the grant for, roughly.

The grant will be used on kit production (containing the modules). We will produce 10 kits that will be used by the participants (in groups) with each kit costing approximately 50 USD to manufacture. In total, we will need 500 USD to produce the kits.

9. Provide links (references) to documentation or reviews of similar events or works you have executed. School coursework or projects can be listed, even social media posts. Anything to give a sense of what you’re about and your ability to successfully conduct this course or workshop. To keep this short, just the links and their descriptions will do.

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1. Your name, and that of your organisation (or the organisation that will receive funds on your behalf).

Tafia Sabila Khairunnisa, Foldscope Network - Indonesia Fellows (organized under Meaningful Design Group)

2. Name of event. Make another post with another event name if you have another event.

Jimbaran Fishing Communities Looking Closer with Foldscope

3. Email address by which you may be contacted.

tafiasabila@gmail.com

4. What open science hardware tool(s) will be the focus of your event?

Foldscope (https://foldscope.com/)

5. Describe your course or workshop, whom and what it is for, where and when it will be held, how many attendees (IRL or virtual) you expect.

Last year, Foldscope was introduced to Indonesia during the Bali Fab Fest event. As part of our commitment to ensure an ongoing evangelization of Foldscope, while supporting marine conservation efforts through citizen science movement across coastal communities in Indonesia, the Foldscope Network Indonesia is planning to conduct a series of workshops for the fishing communities in Bali. The aim is to expand on our pilot outreach to the Jimbaran-Kedonganan fishing communities, starting by hosting a 3-day workshop in May 2023 at the traditional fishing village of Jimbaran beach. The workshop will include the following activities:

  • Day 1: Plankton Net Workshop - Making frugal plankton nets out of local materials
  • Day 2: Foldscope Workshop and Water Sampling in Jimbaran Beach (refer to this video)
  • Day 3: Microcosmos Workshop - Documenting and sharing with community

We expect to involve at least 30-40 fishermen across 10 fishing groups around the Jimbaran bay, with at least 1 community leader and 1 younger fishermen from each group. And though specifically intended for the fishermen, we allow any other interested stakeholders in the fishing communities to take part in, so we will prepare more foldscopes as buffers.

6. Do you have plans for ongoing activities after this event OR is it intended that the participants will continue activities after this event? If so, describe the intentions and plans here.

Definitely. As a representative for Foldscope Fellows in Indonesia, our mission is to spread as many foldscopes as possible across Indonesia, with strong emphasis to enable direct mass data collection from the local & coastal indigenous communities and include them in the marine conservation efforts. To achieve that, our approach is by first establishing a system in the community where this movement could run and continue organically. This workshop serves as a kickstarter that meant to be an ongoing event. In this particular one, we aim to plant a seed to nurture more citizen science activists within the Jimbaran fishing community. That is why we encourage and prioritize the community leads and also the younger fishermen from each fishing groups in Jimbaran, so they would be the anchors that help spread this further within their communities. We will keep engaging, monitoring, and offering support to the fisherman through Whatsapp group. As a continuation of this particular workshop, we plan to conduct upcoming rounds of workshops with the same community but to include other users, like the fisherman’s children and university students and researchers from Bali’s Udayana University, in order to set the ecosystem that enables this citizen science movement to really happen. Besides, we also plan to spread this movement to other potential coastal communities in Bali, such as the traditional fishing village of Tianyar, Karangasem, Bali, where a local organization there happens to also train local fishermen in the reef conservation effort.

7. What event outputs (e.g. teaching materials, curricula, software, etc.) will you make available? Will these outputs carry an open licence?

We will make a video documentation about the whole workshop, a microcosmos post, as well as an open ‘Citizen Science Guidebook’ for fishing communities which will highlight:

  • How to make frugal plankton nets
  • Collect water samples & towing guide
  • What to make of their findings

8. What you will use the grant for, roughly.

9. Provide links (references) to documentation or reviews of similar
events or works you have executed. School coursework or projects
can be listed, even social media posts. Anything to give a sense
of what you’re about and your ability to successfully conduct this
course or workshop. To keep this short, just the links and their descriptions will do.

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  1. Your name, and that of your organisation (or the organisation that will receive funds on your behalf).

Ebuka Ezeike, Project Manager at Access 2 Perspectives

  1. Name of event. Make another post with another event name if you have another event.

Introduction to Arduino kits in a scientific context

  1. Email address by which you may be contacted.

ebuka@access2perspectives.org

  1. What open science hardware tool(s) will be the focus of your event?

A digital multimeter and an
Arduino Starter Kit which contains the following:
· Arduino UNO board.
· Breadboard.
· LED (Bright White, Green, Red, Yellow, Blue, and RGB)
· LCD Alphanumeric.
· Wooden base that can be easily assembled.
· Solid core jump wires.
· Stranded Jump wires of RED and BLACK color.
· 9V Battery
· Resistors of 220 Ohms, 560 Ohms, 1kOhms, 4.7kOhms, 10kOhms, 1MOhms, and 10MOhms
· Small DC Motor of 6/9V
· (40 x 1) Male Strip pins
· Red, Blue, and Green Transparent Gels
· Diodes
· The Capacitors of 100uF
· Optocouplers
· Small servo meter
· Piezo Capsule
· Push Buttons
· Tilt Sensor
· Potentiometer
· Phototransistor
· Temperature Sensor
· MOSFET Transistors
· H-bridge Motor Driver
· USB Cable

  1. Describe your course or workshop, whom and what it is for, where and when it will be held, how many attendees (IRL or virtual) you expect.

The workshop will be organized for high school students between the ages of 15 and 18. It is designed to have three sessions.

In the first session, the students will be introduced to all the components of the Arduino Starter Kit including their functions.

This workshop is designed as a pilot and introductory course to inform the participants about possible applications in a research context as Open Science hardware.
These applications include building interactive tools in the laboratory like robots and how and where to use sensors and switches to control light and motors. Some other examples of sensor application that would be mentioned to them are as used in doors in labs, homes, offices and cars.
These would serve as a good background knowledge which they can build on as they go higher in their education and in the field of open science hardware.

In the second session, the students will be taught how to build a circuit on a breadboard using the electronic components from the Arduino kit, like the breadboard, the LED, wire, battery etc. This would give them the idea of how current flows in real life connectivity in our labs, homes and offices.

In the third session, the students will be taught how to test for continuity (current flow) on a breadboard using a digital multimeter.

After the sessions, each student is expected to practice what he or she has been taught.
The workshop will take place on the 29th of April, 2023 in a high school in Abuja, Nigeria. Fifteen students (boys and girls) are expected to physically take part in this workshop.

  1. Do you have plans for ongoing activities after this event OR is it intended that the participants will continue activities after this event? If so, describe the intentions and plans here.

The workshop is meant to be an ongoing event. This will help the students to build on what they have learnt about open science hardware tools at the foundation level. As we hold subsequent workshops, it will serve as a platform to train other beginners in various high schools in Nigeria and generally promote open science hardware.
Through our work at Access 2 Perspectives and AfricArXiv, we are well connected within the AfricaOS and GOSH community. We will subsequently explore collaboration opportunities with research oriented applications of Arduino powered tech-driven research hardware, e.g. with
MBOALab, https://www.mboalab.africa/
Open Hardware Makers, https://openhardware.space
LAB Hack, LabHack · AfricArXiv

  1. What event outputs (e.g. teaching materials, curricula, software, etc.) will you make available? Will these outputs carry an open license?

All the written documents and instructional materials used for the workshop will be made available at africarxiv.org under the CC BY SA 4.0 license.

  1. What will you use the grant for, roughly?
    The grant will be used to provide all the materials needed to hold a successful workshop.

The breakdown is as follows:

$ 50 - $150 for planning and facilitation
$300 - To purchase 3 Arduino starter kits and 3 digital multimeters. The students (15) will be divided into three groups.
$50 - Paper notebooks and other writing materials for the participating students.

  1. Provide links (references) to documentation or reviews of similar
    events or works you have executed. School coursework or projects
    can be listed, even social media posts. Anything to give a sense
    of what you’re about and your ability to successfully conduct this
    course or workshop. To keep this short, just the links and their descriptions will do.

I had experience working with Arduino tools in my university laboratory where I built circuits and used the digital multimeter to test for continuity (current flow through a conductor) in my second year Physics course at the Federal University of Technology Minna Niger state, Nigeria

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Your name, and that of your organisation (or the organisation that will receive funds on your behalf).

Siyona Mishra, Richard Hu

iGEM at Hopkins

Name of event. Make another post with another event name if you have another event.

Hardware Workshop and Design (Hopkins iGEM)

Email address by which you may be contacted.

igemhopkins@gmail.com

What open science hardware tool(s) will be the focus of your event?

Applications to synthetic biology and bioengineering. We are one week from narrowing down the focus area for Hopkins iGEM 2023. Our current plans are:

  1. A bioreactor with environmental control and measurement (e.g.: temperature and pH probes)

  2. One of the following:

  3. An apparatus to produce/spin nanofibers, (e.g. through electrospinning)

  4. A cell counter (e.g. a hemocytometer, or possibly a fluidics approach)

As a peer-mentored student team, we would aim to build the tools from provided hardware components, apply them to further synthetic biology design projects, and train undergraduate members in the process of hardware fabrication.

Describe your course or workshop, whom and what it is for, where and when it will be held, how many attendees (IRL or virtual) you expect.

Workshop Date: April 23rd, 5-7 pm EST (tentative date during April)

Attendees: ~15-20

The primary audience of our workshop is going to be current and future iGEM undergraduates at Hopkins. After this week, we will be selecting one of the tools listed above and working on designing a prototype or building an already available version to compare to what we end up designing.

Do you have plans for ongoing activities after this event OR is it intended that the participants will continue activities after this event? If so, describe the intentions and plans here.

After the workshop, students would have the opportunity to apply their design to real synthetic biology experiments. With permission and due acknowledgment, their efforts may support our year-long iGEM project, culminating in a showcase at the international 2023 Jamboree event.

What event outputs (e.g. teaching materials, curricula, software, etc.) will you make available? Will these outputs carry an open licence?

All designs will be open-source. We will post outputs and their design process to our team wiki; this will be publicly accessible from iGEM 2023.

What you will use the grant for, roughly.

Order hardware components and any other training materials for the workshop. This can include

$450 - hardware materials (microcontrollers, Arduino, etc.)
$50 - general office material (paper, flyers, etc.)

Provide links (references) to documentation or reviews of similar events or works you have executed. School coursework or projects can be listed, even social media posts. Anything to give a sense of what you’re about and your ability to successfully conduct this course or workshop. To keep this short, just the links and their descriptions will do.

Intersession (3 week) Course at Johns Hopkins University

EN.580.150 Synthetic Biology Design Syllabus - Google Docs

We held a 3-week course on Synthetic Biology design with 8-10 students combined in person and virtually. The syllabus is linked above and specific to hardware, students learned how to build and understand a photometer used to measure bacterial colonies.

WetLab Training
Wetlab 1
Wetlab 2

We conducted wet lab-associated training for ~10 people for 5 days and covered techniques such as MidiPrep, PCR, and gel electrophoresis as well as how to use devices such as a thermocycler and nanodrop machine.

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  1. Your name, and that of your organisation (or the organisation that will receive funds on your behalf)

Kyerewaa Boateng

West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens (WACCBIP), University of Ghana.

  1. Name of the event. Make another post with another event name if you have another event.

OSH ENGAGE

  1. Email address by which you may be contacted.

kaboateng99@gmail.com

  1. What open science hardware tool(s) will be the focus of your event?

  2. Foldscope microscope

  3. Epidemiology Modeling Software (EMOD)

  4. Describe your course or workshop, whom and what it is for, where and when it will be held, how many attendees (IRL or virtual) you expect.

Two days Open Science Hardware (OSH) workshop will be organised to engage high school students in under-resourced communities of the Volta region of Ghana on how Open Science Hardware can be used to diagnose infectious diseases like malaria and COVID-19 About 200 Students will be introduced to open-source diagnostic tools like foldscope microscopes that can be used to detect infectious diseases and samples. They will also be introduced to a malaria diagnostic kit called the Malaria LAMP (Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification) kit which employs isothermal amplification to find the presence of malaria parasites in blood samples. It is a portable diagnostic device that is inexpensive, simple to use and locally manufactured. These practical sessions will expose students to basic experimentation techniques such as microscopy and testing for malaria and COVID-19 using LAMP assays for the diagnosis of infectious diseases. Students will be put in smaller groups to participate in these basic experiments.

This event will be facilitated by a team of research fellows who are under the Centre’s Wellcome Trust Developing Excellence in Leadership, Training and Science (DELTAS) Africa initiative programme. Facilitators will give short presentations to students about their work and research in the area of infectious diseases and topics such as the ethics of vaccine distribution and the role of open science in global health. Students may gain a more comprehensive understanding of challenges and opportunities in these fields.

  1. Do you have plans for ongoing activities after this event OR is it intended that the participants will continue activities after this event? If so, describe the intentions and plans here.

This will be an annual programme and engagement activity

  1. What event outputs (e.g. teaching materials, curricula, software, etc.) will you make available? Will these outputs carry an open licence?

The engagement sessions will be documented and videos will be created

  1. What will you use the grant for, roughly?

Stationary

Snacks for Kids

Stipend for facilitators

Travel cost

  1. Provide links (references) to documentation or reviews of similar
    events o

https://twitter.com/WACCBIP_UG/status/1019329135099957248

https://twitter.com/WACCBIP_UG/status/1125439670974914562

https://twitter.com/WACCBIP_UG/status/1125792571970727936

https://twitter.com/WACCBIP_UG/status/1125792579818332161

https://twitter.com/WACCBIP_UG/status/1191399319187918848

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  1. Name: Ohai Blessing
    Name of Organisation: The Nigerian Society of Engineers Student Branch (NSE-SB) Faculty of Engineering, University of Nigeria (Nsukka).

  2. Name Of event: MakerWare Design Programme

  3. Email address: nsestudentbranchunn@gmail.com

  4. What open science hardware tool(s) will be the focus of your event?
    Arduino UNO kits
    ESP 32/8266 kits
    Actuators
    Sensors
    Electrical/Electronic components
    Internet Bundle

  5. Describe your course or workshop, whom and what it is for, where and when it will be held, and how many attendees (IRL or virtual) you expect.
    The “MakerWare Design Programme” is an embedded system design training that is part of our Professional Development Programme and held every semester to teach novices/beginners how to design and implement embedded/electronic systems using open-source tools. The training will be held at the Faculty of Engineering – University of Nigeria, Nsukka, from the 15th - 27th of May, 2023. It would be a physical program and about 200 persons are expected to be in attendance consequent to past programmes. The programme is scheduled to hold 3-hours per day for three times a week over the course of two weeks.

  6. Do you have plans for ongoing activities after this event OR is it intended that the participants will continue activities after this event? If so, describe the intentions and plans here.
    Yes, we have made plans to host a “3D CAD printing” programme after the “MakerWare Design Programme” during which students will learn how to design and prototype 3D models, and again employ all that they will learn from the 2-weeks “MakerWare Design Programme” and prototype an idea/product. Also, we would hold subsequent meetups for follow up as we are a tech community.

  7. What event outputs (e.g. teaching materials, curricula, software, etc.) will you make available? Will these outputs carry an open license?
    We would use open-source tools for the design and implementation sessions in this programme and our curriculum and teaching materials would be documented and made available via GitHub too.

  8. What you will use the grant for, roughly.
    Based on inflation adjusted estimations -
    $320 - for Purchasing the equipment and components for the programme
    $180 - for Logistics and Technical Support

  9. Provide links (references) to documentation or reviews of similar events or works you have executed. School coursework or projects can be listed, even social media posts. Anything to give a sense of what you’re about and your ability to successfully conduct this
    course or workshop. To keep this short, just the links and their descriptions will do.

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Just a note for everyone using the forums, you should be able to click on your original posts and make whatever edits or updates you need.

There is a record of when those edits were made and it will publicly show that you edited something. So maybe you don’t do that after the deadline, or if you have to just make a note about what got changed in what you submitted :slight_smile:

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