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Community Science Workshops and Shared Authorship of Space: Interview with Emilyn Green

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Dan was living in the Mission neighborhood, which at the time was very kid-dense, mostly first-generation immigrants, and Dan noticed that when he was messing around in his garage with physics gadgets, he could not keep the kids in his neighborhood out of his garage. We received two rounds of NSF funding in the 1990s to expand.

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Scratch: An Educational, Multi-Generational Online Community that Works

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Everyone is instructed not to create usernames identical to their real names. On most user-generated content sites, the vast majority of content is barely viewed. If you are under 18, ScratchR will display your home country but not your state or city. ScratchR is really well-designed.