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Academy's course offerings on topics relevant to biodiversity digitization. Please consider sharing this announcement with others who might benefit from it. Thanks!</span></div>
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and Austin</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">iDigBio’s
<a href="https://digitizationacademy.org/" id="OWA5f59cebf-e1d3-e943-16bf-07cab94a6aa0" class="OWAAutoLink" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="margin: 0px;">
Digitization Academy</a> is pleased to announce our 2024 course offerings.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;"> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">The Digitization Academy delivers
online courses that are focused on a range of activities relevant to biodiversity collections. Our courses aim to empower participants with skills and knowledge to advance digitization of biodiversity data. For more information on learning objectives, see
the course tiles for our 2024 offerings at <a href="https://digitizationacademy.org/courses" id="OWA94525b89-c7ed-b612-1d25-31b1cb4f7071" class="OWAAutoLink" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="margin: 0px;">
https://digitizationacademy.org/courses</a>.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">2024 Digitization Academy
course offerings:</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Introducción a la Digitalización de Especímenes
de Biodiversidad</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">(course offered primarily
in Spanish)</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">March 18 – April 17, 2024</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Introduction to Immersive Media for Biodiversity Collections</b></span></li></ul>
<div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;"> May 1, 2024</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Digital Imaging for Biodiversity Collections</b></span></li></ul>
<div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;"> July 9-12, 2024</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Introduction to Biodiversity Specimen Digitization</b></span></li></ul>
<div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;"> July 29 – August 1,
2024</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;"> August 20 – 23, 2024</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;"> September 30 – October
23, 2024</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Public Participation in Digitization of Biodiversity Collections</b></span></li></ul>
<div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;"> December 16 – 19, 2024</span></div>
<p style="text-align: left; margin: 0in;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: black; font-weight: 400;"> </span></p>
<div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">Applications for most courses
open about 8 weeks prior to course offering.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Direct any questions about the
<a href="https://digitizationacademy.org/" id="OWA99311367-94e6-612d-9973-6ac3357f6649" class="OWAAutoLink" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="margin: 0px;">
Digitization Academy</a> to Kalina Jakymec (<a href="mailto:kjakymec@fsu.edu" id="OWAc2c15e6a-c5b9-8852-3676-8c7fc237dbdd" class="OWAAutoLink" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="margin: 0px;">kjakymec@fsu.edu</a>) or Austin Mast (<a href="mailto:amast@fsu.edu" id="OWA6f5078ad-8bf8-69eb-1e59-b27aac4f97f3" class="OWAAutoLink" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="margin: 0px;">amast@fsu.edu</a>).</b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;">Please consider sharing this
announcement with others who might benefit from it. </span></div>
<div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400;"><i> </i></span></div>
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Digitization Academy is funded by iDigBio and Florida State University's Institute for Digital Information and Scientific Communication. iDigBio is funded by grants from the National Science Foundation [DBI-1115210 (2011-2018), DBI-1547229 (2016-2022), &
DBI-2027654 (2021-2026)]. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.</i></span></div>
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