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!
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.
We had a fantastic weekend building microscopes, geeking with colourful LEDs for illumination and using both the DIY versions and some other “professional” microscopes for BioVJing into our neightbours festival! We had some nice cultures already going on that suits well for making animated lively videos, Euglena have been growing a few months, a big tank full of waterfleas (Daphnia) and some spirulina bubbling in the corner. Due to bad weather we didn’t go out for a field trip to sample more soil and check the microbes living within…
The applicants have been contacted, and they know what’s going on, so this is an update for the community.
Most of the awardees have passed due diligence and are providing or have provided bank details to receive the USD500. A small number of awardees are having the paperwork ironed out. Some of these are not “organisations” in the required sense, and some need to find fiscal sponsors to receive the money.
@Harold There has been a change in the hands-on session for our workshop. Initially, the plan was to organize a workshop on an Arduino-based thermometer gun, but due to some challenges involved in getting the hardware components for the workshop, we have decided to switch the hands-on session to an open flexure microscope.
I thought it appropriate to update you and the GOSH comm council.
For everyone who got grants, there’s an “events” category on the gosh forum which might be a good spot to share your event and documentation after the event!
@Harold Our workshop will be holding on the 6th of June, 2023. This is due to the fact that the funds didn’t reach us as early as we had expected. But we will make sure to give our report before the deadline. Kindly bear with us. Thanks again
Thanks for the possibility!
