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<strong style="font-size:20px">Thursday, March 3rd, 2011</strong><br> | |||
<strong style="font-size:20px">7:00—9:00pm</strong> Cocktails, snacks, mingling and exploring | |||
The Mozilla Science Fair will be held in the | <strong>Where?</strong> The <strong>Mozilla Science Fair</strong> at the <strong>Digital Media and Learning 2011</strong> conference will be held in the promenade at the conference hotel venue. This is on the [http://www.hilton.com/en/hotels/content/LGBLHHF/media/pdf/LGBLHHFfloorplans2.pdf 2nd floor] | ||
Remember Science Fairs in grade school? The Mozilla version involves grown-ups and cocktails, but it's pretty much the same concept. Smart people who are passionate about their super-cool projects -- research, learning models, web projects, software, experiments -- want to show you what they're working on and get your feedback and ideas. They'll bring out their prototypes, wireframes, maps, charts, and crazy ideas while you explore and engage.''' ''' | |||
[http://learningfreedomandtheweb.org/video/science-fair/ Check out video of our last science fair, in Barcelona.]</div></div> | |||
=== Who's participating? === | === Who's participating? === | ||
These projects are confirmed as of | These projects are confirmed as of March 1: | ||
<section begin="summary" />{{ScienceFairSummary | |||
|icon=arduino.jpg | |||
|pagetitle=Arduino | |||
|owner=Tod Kurt (Crashspace) Carlyn Maw | |||
|description= [http://www.arduino.cc/ Arduino] is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It's intended for artists, designers, hobbyists, and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments. <em>#arduino</em> | |||
}}<section end="summary" /> __NOTOC__ | |||
<section begin="summary" />{{ScienceFairSummary | |||
|icon=butter.png | |||
|pagetitle=Butter | |||
|owner=Ben Moskowitz | |||
|description=The [http://popcornjs.org Popcorn] project is about adding meta-data to HTML5 video. Butter is the point and click authoring tool from WebMadeMovies, Mozilla's open video lab, to enable anybody to easily make popcorn videos. Open video book report, anybody? <em>#webmademovies</em> | |||
}}<section end="summary" /> __NOTOC__ | |||
<section begin="summary" />{{ScienceFairSummary | <section begin="summary" />{{ScienceFairSummary | ||
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|pagetitle=Critical Commons | |pagetitle=Critical Commons | ||
|owner=Steve Anderson (USC) | |owner=Steve Anderson (USC) | ||
|description=Critical Commons is a non-profit advocacy coalition that supports the use of media for scholarship, reasearch and teaching, providing resources, information and tools for scholars, students, educators and creators. | |description=[http://criticalcommons.org/ Critical Commons] is a non-profit advocacy coalition that supports the use of media for scholarship, reasearch and teaching, providing resources, information and tools for scholars, students, educators and creators.<em>#criticalcommons</em><br> <span style="color:red">2008 DML Comp winner!</span> | ||
}}<section end="summary" /> __NOTOC__ | |||
<section begin="summary" />{{ScienceFairSummary | |||
|icon=echopark.gif | |||
|pagetitle=Echo Park Film Center | |||
|owner=Paolo Davanzo | |||
|description=Since 2002, [http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/ Echo Park Film Center] has provided a dynamic creative meeting place for filmmakers and film lovers of all ages to come together in celebrating the magic of the moving image.<em>#echopark</em><br><span style="color:red">Collaborator on Out the Window, 2010 DML Comp winner</span> | |||
}}<section end="summary" /> __NOTOC__ | }}<section end="summary" /> __NOTOC__ | ||
<section begin="summary" />{{ScienceFairSummary | <section begin="summary" />{{ScienceFairSummary | ||
|icon=fab.png | |icon=fab.png | ||
|pagetitle=Fab@ | |pagetitle=Fab@School | ||
|owner=Jeff Lipton | |owner=Jeff Lipton, Bill Norris, Julia Young | ||
|description=Fab@ | |description=[http://www.fabathome.org/ Fab@School] introduces elementary and middle school students to the excitement and power of digital fabrication. Students use friendly 2D and 3D fabricators to design and create both simple and sophisticated projects including pop-ups, 3D objects, automata, and working machines. Fab@School inspires creativity and collaboration and helps students understand and internalize the design process, all while supporting existing math and science standards. <em>#fab</em><span style="color:red"> 2010 DML Comp winner!</span> | ||
}}<section end="summary" /> __NOTOC__ | |||
<section begin="summary" />{{ScienceFairSummary | |||
|icon=futureclass.png | |||
|pagetitle=Future Class | |||
|owner=Jade Elizabeth Davis | |||
|description=Three graduate students, two undergraduate students, one recent alum, no syllabus. This is [http://www.hastac.org/tag/future-class FutureClass], a collaborative independent study on a mission to completely reinvent institutional teaching and learning. <em>#hastac</em> | |||
}}<section end="summary" /> __NOTOC__ | |||
<section begin="summary" />{{ScienceFairSummary | |||
|icon=gender.jpg | |||
|pagetitle=Gendered Ads Remixer | |||
|owner=Jonathan McIntosh ([http://rebelliouspixels.com Rebellious Pixels]) | |||
|description=Embedded in the 25,000 TV commercials children are subjected to every year are a set of antiquated social norms and values about gender roles. See how simple remix video tools can be used in seminar settings to deconstruct and then creatively re-frame gendered TV commercials. <em>#genderremixer</em> | |||
}}<section end="summary" /> __NOTOC__ | }}<section end="summary" /> __NOTOC__ | ||
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|pagetitle=Hackasaurus | |pagetitle=Hackasaurus | ||
|owner=Atul Varma (Mozilla) Jess Klein (NYCLN) | |owner=Atul Varma (Mozilla) Jess Klein (NYCLN) | ||
|description=Hackasaurus is a set of tools that are under development to help teenagers closely review, remix and redesign the Web—actively engaging with the digital world around them.}}<section end="summary" /> __NOTOC__ | |description=[http://hackasaurus.org Hackasaurus] is a set of tools that are under development to help teenagers closely review, remix and redesign the Web—actively engaging with the digital world around them. <em>#hackasaurus</em>}}<section end="summary" /> __NOTOC__ | ||
<section begin="summary" />{{ScienceFairSummary | <section begin="summary" />{{ScienceFairSummary | ||
|icon= | |icon=nycln.gif | ||
|pagetitle= | |pagetitle=Learning Networks | ||
|owner= | |owner=Jess Klein (NYCLN)and Chris Lawrence (New York Hall of Science) | ||
|description=The | |description= [http://newyouthcity.com The Learning Networks] are an open, connected community dedicated to transforming the learning landscape, creating opportunities for youth to explore their interests in virtual and physical spaces in New York and Chicago. <em>#nycln</em> | ||
}}<section end="summary" /> __NOTOC__ | }}<section end="summary" /> __NOTOC__ | ||
<section begin="summary" />{{ScienceFairSummary | <section begin="summary" />{{ScienceFairSummary | ||
|icon= | |icon=olpc.jpg | ||
|pagetitle= | |pagetitle=OLPC | ||
|owner= | |owner=Barbara Barry | ||
|description= | |description=[http://one.laptop.org/about/mission OLPC's] mission is to empower the world's poorest children through education. We aim to provide each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop. To this end, we have designed hardware, content and software for collaborative, joyful, and self-empowered learning. <em>#olpc</em> | ||
}}<section end="summary" /> __NOTOC__ | }}<section end="summary" /> __NOTOC__ | ||
<section begin="summary" />{{ScienceFairSummary | |||
|icon=sfp2p.jpg | |||
|pagetitle=Peer 2 Peer University | |||
|owner=Philipp Schmidt | |||
|description=The [http://p2pu.org Peer 2 Peer University] is a grassroots open education project that organizes learning outside of institutional walls and gives learners recognition for their achievements. P2PU replaces the traditional top-down model. Anyone can get involved to organize or join a study group, and everyone learns together, using existing open content. <em>#p2pu</em>}}<section end="summary" /> __NOTOC__ | |||
<section begin="summary" />{{ScienceFairSummary | <section begin="summary" />{{ScienceFairSummary | ||
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|pagetitle=School of Webcraft + Badges | |pagetitle=School of Webcraft + Badges | ||
|owner=Erin Knight (Mozilla), Alex Halavais, Ruth Schmidt | |owner=Erin Knight (Mozilla), Alex Halavais, Ruth Schmidt | ||
|description=Mozilla and P2PU have teamed up to create the School of Webcraft, a powerful new way to teach and learn web developer skills. School of Webcraft courses are 100% free and globally accessible. The Assessment and Badge pilot introduces assessments and associated badges into the School of Webcraft, the first step toward real peer developer accreditation. | |description=Mozilla and P2PU have teamed up to create the [http://p2pu.org/webcraft School of Webcraft], a powerful new way to teach and learn web developer skills. School of Webcraft courses are 100% free and globally accessible. The Assessment and Badge pilot introduces assessments and associated badges into the School of Webcraft, the first step toward real peer developer accreditation. <em>#webcraft</em> | ||
}}<section end="summary" /> __NOTOC__ | }}<section end="summary" /> __NOTOC__ | ||
<section begin="summary" />{{ScienceFairSummary | <section begin="summary" />{{ScienceFairSummary | ||
|icon= | |icon=rtn2.jpg | ||
|pagetitle=Roadtrip Nation | |pagetitle=Roadtrip Nation | ||
|owner=Annie Mais (Roadtrip Nation) | |owner=Annie Mais (Roadtrip Nation) | ||
|description=Roadtrip Nation empowers you to define your own road in life instead of traveling down someone else's. We encourage you to engage in self-construction, rather than mass production. We encourage you to be proactive and actively participate in defining your future by hitting the road and learning from Leaders who have resisted The Noise of conformity and stayed true to themselves. | |description=[http://roadtripnation.org Roadtrip Nation] empowers you to define your own road in life instead of traveling down someone else's. We encourage you to engage in self-construction, rather than mass production. We encourage you to be proactive and actively participate in defining your future by hitting the road and learning from Leaders who have resisted The Noise of conformity and stayed true to themselves. <em>#roadtrip</em> | ||
}}<section end="summary" /> __NOTOC__ | }}<section end="summary" /> __NOTOC__ | ||
<section begin="summary" />{{ScienceFairSummary | <section begin="summary" />{{ScienceFairSummary | ||
|icon= | |icon=scratch.jpg | ||
|pagetitle= | |pagetitle=Scratch | ||
|owner= | |owner=Andrés Monroy-Hernández | ||
|description= | |description=Scratch (http://scratch.mit.edu) is a programming environment that enables young people to create their own interactive digital media (such as stories, games, animations) and then share their creations online. <em>#scratch</em><br><span style="color:red"> 2010 DML Comp winner!</span> | ||
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|pagetitle=Stonesoup | |pagetitle=Stonesoup | ||
|owner=Enric Senabre Hidalgo | |owner=Enric Senabre Hidalgo | ||
|description=Stonesoup is | |description=[https://wiki.mozilla.org/Drumbeat/StoneSoup Stonesoup] is an Open Web learning video-toolkit for sharing your activity "source code". It documents and shares new approaches for engaging youth in learning about media literacy, urban issues or personal identity using open tools. <em>#stonesoup</em> | ||
}}<section end="summary" /> __NOTOC__ | }}<section end="summary" /> __NOTOC__ | ||
<section begin="summary" />{{ScienceFairSummary | <section begin="summary" />{{ScienceFairSummary | ||
|icon= | |icon=tangiblek.jpg | ||
|pagetitle= | |pagetitle=TangibleK | ||
|owner= | |owner=Elizabeth Kazakoff, Louise Flannery | ||
|description= | |description=The [http://ase.tufts.edu/devtech/tangiblek/ TangibleK] project encompasses a 20-hour curriculum and a programming environment called CHERP (Creative Hybrid Environment for Robotic Programming), a hybrid tangible/graphical language for programming robots such as LEGO® Mindstorms™. CHERP programs are constructed using interlocking wooden blocks labeled with child-friendly icons and/or their corresponding on-screen counterparts. <em>#tangiblek</em> | ||
}}<section end="summary" /> __NOTOC__ | }}<section end="summary" /> __NOTOC__ | ||
<section begin="summary" />{{ScienceFairSummary | <section begin="summary" />{{ScienceFairSummary | ||
|icon= | |icon=whyreef.png | ||
|pagetitle= | |pagetitle=WhyReef | ||
|owner= | |owner=The Field Museum | ||
|description= | |description=Visit [http://reef.whyville.net/ WhyReef], grab an air tank and SCUBA mask, and you’re off to an adventure in the coral reefs of Whyville! You’ll discover beautiful coral reef species from the Harlequin Shrimp to the Giant Triton Snail to the White-Tip Reef Shark. Learn to count and identify them to help monitor the populations living on each reef, just like scientists do.<em>#whyreef</em><br><span style="color:red">Collaborator on 2010 DML Comp winner Conservation Connection</span> | ||
}}<section end="summary" /> __NOTOC__ | |||
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<section begin="summary" />{{ScienceFairSummary | <section begin="summary" />{{ScienceFairSummary | ||
|icon=youmedia.png | |icon=youmedia.png | ||
|pagetitle=YouMedia Chicago | |pagetitle=YouMedia Chicago | ||
|owner=Taylor Bayless | |owner=Taylor Bayless (CPL) Mike Hawkins (DYN) | ||
|description=YouMedia Chicago is an innovative, 21st century teen learning space housed at the Chicago Public Library's downtown Harold Washington Library Center. YOUmedia was created to connect young adults, books, media, mentors, and institutions throughout the city of Chicago in one dynamic space designed to inspire collaboration and creativity. YouMedia is a partnership between the Chicago Public Library and the Digital Youth Network. | |description=[http://youmediachicago.org/ YouMedia Chicago] is an innovative, 21st century teen learning space housed at the Chicago Public Library's downtown Harold Washington Library Center. YOUmedia was created to connect young adults, books, media, mentors, and institutions throughout the city of Chicago in one dynamic space designed to inspire collaboration and creativity. YouMedia is a partnership between the Chicago Public Library and the Digital Youth Network. <em>#youmedia</em> | ||
}}<section end="summary" /> __NOTOC__ | }}<section end="summary" /> __NOTOC__ | ||
< | === How to enter the raffle! === | ||
<strong>step 1</strong>. Tweet your comments about the projects on display. Make sure to include #dml2011 and the project’s #hashtag.<br><br> | |||
example: The folks of Future Class have some revolutionary ideas #dml2011 #hastac<br><br> | |||
<strong>step 2</strong>. Tweet about four (4) or more exhibits to be automatically entered to win! We’ll raffle t-shirts throughout the weekend.<br><br> | |||
<strong>Presenters are playing too</strong>: We'll be using your tweets to track which projects and exhibits you're most excited about. And we’ll award those projects special Science Fair "merit badges." | |||
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Thursday, March 3rd, 2011
7:00—9:00pm Cocktails, snacks, mingling and exploring
Where? The Mozilla Science Fair at the Digital Media and Learning 2011 conference will be held in the promenade at the conference hotel venue. This is on the 2nd floor
Remember Science Fairs in grade school? The Mozilla version involves grown-ups and cocktails, but it's pretty much the same concept. Smart people who are passionate about their super-cool projects -- research, learning models, web projects, software, experiments -- want to show you what they're working on and get your feedback and ideas. They'll bring out their prototypes, wireframes, maps, charts, and crazy ideas while you explore and engage.
Check out video of our last science fair, in Barcelona.Who's participating?
These projects are confirmed as of March 1:
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Arduino |
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| Presented by: Tod Kurt (Crashspace) Carlyn Maw | |||
| Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It's intended for artists, designers, hobbyists, and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments. #arduino | |||
 |
Butter |
||
| Presented by: Ben Moskowitz | |||
| The Popcorn project is about adding meta-data to HTML5 video. Butter is the point and click authoring tool from WebMadeMovies, Mozilla's open video lab, to enable anybody to easily make popcorn videos. Open video book report, anybody? #webmademovies | |||
 |
Critical Commons |
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| Presented by: Steve Anderson (USC) | |||
| Critical Commons is a non-profit advocacy coalition that supports the use of media for scholarship, reasearch and teaching, providing resources, information and tools for scholars, students, educators and creators.#criticalcommons 2008 DML Comp winner! |
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Echo Park Film Center |
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| Presented by: Paolo Davanzo | |||
| Since 2002, Echo Park Film Center has provided a dynamic creative meeting place for filmmakers and film lovers of all ages to come together in celebrating the magic of the moving image.#echopark Collaborator on Out the Window, 2010 DML Comp winner |
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Fab@School |
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| Presented by: Jeff Lipton, Bill Norris, Julia Young | |||
| Fab@School introduces elementary and middle school students to the excitement and power of digital fabrication. Students use friendly 2D and 3D fabricators to design and create both simple and sophisticated projects including pop-ups, 3D objects, automata, and working machines. Fab@School inspires creativity and collaboration and helps students understand and internalize the design process, all while supporting existing math and science standards. #fab 2010 DML Comp winner! | |||
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Future Class |
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| Presented by: Jade Elizabeth Davis | |||
| Three graduate students, two undergraduate students, one recent alum, no syllabus. This is FutureClass, a collaborative independent study on a mission to completely reinvent institutional teaching and learning. #hastac | |||
 |
Gendered Ads Remixer |
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| Presented by: Jonathan McIntosh (Rebellious Pixels) | |||
| Embedded in the 25,000 TV commercials children are subjected to every year are a set of antiquated social norms and values about gender roles. See how simple remix video tools can be used in seminar settings to deconstruct and then creatively re-frame gendered TV commercials. #genderremixer | |||
 |
Hackasaurus |
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| Presented by: Atul Varma (Mozilla) Jess Klein (NYCLN) | |||
| Hackasaurus is a set of tools that are under development to help teenagers closely review, remix and redesign the Web—actively engaging with the digital world around them. #hackasaurus | |||
 |
Learning Networks |
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| Presented by: Jess Klein (NYCLN)and Chris Lawrence (New York Hall of Science) | |||
| The Learning Networks are an open, connected community dedicated to transforming the learning landscape, creating opportunities for youth to explore their interests in virtual and physical spaces in New York and Chicago. #nycln | |||
 |
OLPC |
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| Presented by: Barbara Barry | |||
| OLPC's mission is to empower the world's poorest children through education. We aim to provide each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop. To this end, we have designed hardware, content and software for collaborative, joyful, and self-empowered learning. #olpc | |||
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Peer 2 Peer University |
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| Presented by: Philipp Schmidt | |||
| The Peer 2 Peer University is a grassroots open education project that organizes learning outside of institutional walls and gives learners recognition for their achievements. P2PU replaces the traditional top-down model. Anyone can get involved to organize or join a study group, and everyone learns together, using existing open content. #p2pu | |||
 |
School of Webcraft + Badges |
||
| Presented by: Erin Knight (Mozilla), Alex Halavais, Ruth Schmidt | |||
| Mozilla and P2PU have teamed up to create the School of Webcraft, a powerful new way to teach and learn web developer skills. School of Webcraft courses are 100% free and globally accessible. The Assessment and Badge pilot introduces assessments and associated badges into the School of Webcraft, the first step toward real peer developer accreditation. #webcraft | |||
 |
Roadtrip Nation |
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| Presented by: Annie Mais (Roadtrip Nation) | |||
| Roadtrip Nation empowers you to define your own road in life instead of traveling down someone else's. We encourage you to engage in self-construction, rather than mass production. We encourage you to be proactive and actively participate in defining your future by hitting the road and learning from Leaders who have resisted The Noise of conformity and stayed true to themselves. #roadtrip | |||
 |
Scratch |
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| Presented by: Andrés Monroy-Hernández | |||
| Scratch (http://scratch.mit.edu) is a programming environment that enables young people to create their own interactive digital media (such as stories, games, animations) and then share their creations online. #scratch 2010 DML Comp winner! |
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Stonesoup |
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| Presented by: Enric Senabre Hidalgo | |||
| Stonesoup is an Open Web learning video-toolkit for sharing your activity "source code". It documents and shares new approaches for engaging youth in learning about media literacy, urban issues or personal identity using open tools. #stonesoup | |||
 |
TangibleK |
||
| Presented by: Elizabeth Kazakoff, Louise Flannery | |||
| The TangibleK project encompasses a 20-hour curriculum and a programming environment called CHERP (Creative Hybrid Environment for Robotic Programming), a hybrid tangible/graphical language for programming robots such as LEGO® Mindstorms™. CHERP programs are constructed using interlocking wooden blocks labeled with child-friendly icons and/or their corresponding on-screen counterparts. #tangiblek | |||
 |
WhyReef |
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| Presented by: The Field Museum | |||
| Visit WhyReef, grab an air tank and SCUBA mask, and you’re off to an adventure in the coral reefs of Whyville! You’ll discover beautiful coral reef species from the Harlequin Shrimp to the Giant Triton Snail to the White-Tip Reef Shark. Learn to count and identify them to help monitor the populations living on each reef, just like scientists do.#whyreef Collaborator on 2010 DML Comp winner Conservation Connection |
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YouMedia Chicago |
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| Presented by: Taylor Bayless (CPL) Mike Hawkins (DYN) | |||
| YouMedia Chicago is an innovative, 21st century teen learning space housed at the Chicago Public Library's downtown Harold Washington Library Center. YOUmedia was created to connect young adults, books, media, mentors, and institutions throughout the city of Chicago in one dynamic space designed to inspire collaboration and creativity. YouMedia is a partnership between the Chicago Public Library and the Digital Youth Network. #youmedia | |||
How to enter the raffle!
step 1. Tweet your comments about the projects on display. Make sure to include #dml2011 and the project’s #hashtag.
example: The folks of Future Class have some revolutionary ideas #dml2011 #hastac
step 2. Tweet about four (4) or more exhibits to be automatically entered to win! We’ll raffle t-shirts throughout the weekend.
Presenters are playing too: We'll be using your tweets to track which projects and exhibits you're most excited about. And we’ll award those projects special Science Fair "merit badges."