[Nhcoll-l] New website to encourage young entomologists

[Katherine Nesheim]

Hello, Natural History Collections listserv!

My name is Katherine Nesheim, and I am a graduate student at Ohio State
University.  Along with a friend from my undergrad, I have co-founded a
website called Class Insecta.  This is a free website that lets young
scientists upload photos of insects to a digital collection, where the
insects are identified by current and former members (including myself and
my co-founder) of Cornell University's undergraduate entomology club,
Snodgrass and Wigglesworth. Our identifiers do their best to provide an ID
and either a short life history or an interesting fact about the insect.
Our aim is to provide taxonomic information, while keeping kids interested
and informed about their local insect fauna.

We are currently seeking funding, mainly through a Kickstarter page (
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.kickstarter.com_projects_1145981097_class-2Dinsecta&d=AwIBaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=QIE0vg8wOhhHztMzt-ZHfyJsFzHkEM4TzTiBIby1TNw&s=0dLhxhO3ErOsq1t9NtcXIvv9F9BVZ9ToluevRslyYa8&e= ), to expand
classinsecta.org. We'd like to improve the website, which we designed and
maintain ourselves, as well as recruit more identifiers and find more kids
interested in using Class Insecta.

Please check out classinsecta.org as well as our Kickstarter
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.kickstarter.com_projects_1145981097_class-2Dinsecta-3Fref-3Dnav-5Fsearch&d=AwIBaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=QIE0vg8wOhhHztMzt-ZHfyJsFzHkEM4TzTiBIby1TNw&s=c_IuxOxxhdvMiEQp8bzfvWJ2iZ4HaJfjpBsXZQ5-akg&e= >
page, and feel free to contact me off-list with any questions or advice.

Thank you!

Katherine Nesheim
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