ID the Birds & Bees with ISC - City Nature Challenge
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ID the Birds & Bees with ISC - City Nature Challenge

Learn what the City Nature Challenge is about, how to use iNaturalist to ID local flora & fauna, and hang out with other citizen scientists!

By ISC

Date and time

Tuesday, April 30 · 6 - 8pm CDT

Location

District Brew Yards

417 North Ashland Avenue Chicago, IL 60622

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About this event

  • 2 hours

ISC welcomes you to join us for an "Identification Social Night" for the global event City Nature Challenge. We'll gather at District Brew Yards with other citizen scientists, get a quick tutorial on how to use the great iNaturalist app, and then hang out enjoying the local brew while marking observations that occurred over the past weekend.

Bring your own laptop or device to work on!

Can't make it that evening? That's okay. You can head out into ANY nature near you the previous weekend to participate. It's really easy and a fun way to engage with nature when you're in a large city! Anyone, anywhere can search for wild plants, animals, and other creatures between April 26-29th. Just add your observations to iNaturalist and they'll automatically be included in the project. See how many species you can find and show the world how diverse our Chicago region is!

Happy exploring!

About the City Nature Challenge:

Started in 2016 as a competition between San Francisco and Los Angeles, the City Nature Challenge (CNC) has grown into an international event, motivating people around the world to find and document wildlife in their cities. The CNC is an annual four-day global bioblitz at the end of April, where cities are in a collaboration-meets-friendly-competition to see not only what can be accomplished when we all work toward a common goal, but also which city can gather the most observations of nature, find the most species, and engage the most people in the event.

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Illinois Science Council ("ISC") is an independent 501c3 nonprofit with a mission to engage, educate, and entertain the adult public about science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) topics. We showcase the scientists and research of the Chicago-area institutions and companies that make Chicago our nation's true "City of Science." ISC serves as the science & tech complement to the region's arts & culture offerings, and the adult complement to student-focused programs, by raising understanding and appreciation of STEM subjects.

Carl Sagan also observed, "We live in a society that is exquisitely dependent upon science and technology in which hardly anyone understands anything about science and technology."  ISC is certainly working to change that!

ISC explores all areas of science and technology and we do so with a fun, non-stuffy approach. We don't care what's been forgotten since school (or never learned in the first place). It's simply about continuing to exercise our inexhaustible human sense of curiosity. We create free and low-cost programs open to the public (aimed at adults and accessible to teens). ISC's engaging programs include author talks (Mary Roach, James Hamblin, Lisa Randall, Randall Munroe, Michio Kaku...), film screenings ("The Believers," "The Atom Smashers," "I Believe in Dinosaurs"), topical talks (Science of Cooking, Your Brain on Happiness, The Brain on Addiction, Science of the Internet, Human Genome & Consumer Genetic Tests...), and experiential hands-on chemistry (Chemistry of... Beer, Chocolate, Whiskey, Coffee, Honey, Bread...), and more. 

Visit: IllinoisScience.org for more info or to volunteer in our work. To support our science outreach efforts, you can make a donation here, or buy something from our Science Swag store here.