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Start BioBus 2011 with a Bang!

Monday, January 3rd, 2011

2010 was an amazing year for the BioBus. Here are some of our proudest achievements:

  • Over 13,000 people boarded the BioBus at 59 different schools and communities
  • Surveys and interviews with over 300 students and teachers revealed that students’ attitudes towards science are strongly improved following a visit to the BioBus, and that the impact is lasting
  • The BioBus now employs two full-time scientists! I look forward to introducing you to Sarah Weisberg, our new full-timer in the weeks and months to come. In addition to our full-time staff, we have had an amazing part-time staff in addition to 50 volunteer scientists that helped teach in 2010.
  • We’ve received fantastic press coverage, from NBC to Discovery News to the New Jersey Herald to German National Television. Check out the “Maker Pioneers” video for an example.
  • 100′s of you donated thousands of dollars to the BioBus to keep us moving forward and allowing affordable visits to low-income schools. Over half of BioBus students come from federally identified “low-income” households.

Vote Today and Help the BioBus Win $25,000!!

Pepsi has chosen the BioBus as a contestant to win $25,000 this month! With your help we will win and continue to offer discounts to low-income communities, in addition to finishing our lesson that focuses on diabetes and obesity. You can vote three times every day this month by doing the following:

1. Text “105112” to Pepsi (73774)

2. Facebook Click on ‘Go to App’ and search for ‘BioBus’

3. Pepsi Refresh Website (Shortlink: http://pep.si/dX8i7o or http://www.refresheverything.com/cellsinmotion). Quick and easy registration using your email address, then vote again.

We need you to vote every day in January. We will win if we are in the top ten by the end of this month. I know we can do it!

Send a blank email to pepsi+subscribe@biobus.org to receive short daily emails reminding you to vote and with updates on our ranking.

However, if you’d rather not have anything to do with this contest, please consider making a direct donation instead: http://www.biobus.org/donate

Thank you for your continuing support,
Ben

BioBus & Pepsi

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Amoeba vs. BioBus

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
“THEIR ONLY COMPLAINT IS THAT THEY WANT MORE.”
Prof. Don DeRosa, Professor of Education at Boston Univ., on teacher evaluations of the BioBus and other mobile labs
At the beginning of June, I asked this community of believers in equitable science education to raise $11,000 to fix the BioBus engine. You have not let me down: 97 of you have given $10, $20, $50, $100, $200, $1000, and one gift of $1300, to bring our total to $7,475. We’re two-thirds of the way there, and I have a special announcement that will hopefully help us finish this job!
The Science House Foundation, charitable arm of Science House and long-time supporter of the BioBus, has committed to match every donation you make until we reach our $11,000 goal. That’s right, starting now, if you give $30, Science House will give an additional $30! The amoeba in the movie on the right, made by BioBus high school intern Ryan Hemlall, moves faster than the BioBus at the moment. Join Science House in fixing this by donating what you can.
http://biobus.org/donate/
Based on what we’ve raised so far, we were able to get the BioBus into a garage, and the mechanics are getting close to finishing their work. Double your donation by giving today, and help get the BioBus out of the garage and roaring down the road to a equitable science education.
http://biobus.org/donate
Thank You,
Ben Dubin-Thaler
BioBus Founder and Chief Scientist
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Donate by check, payable to:

Cell Motion Laboratories, Inc.
Columbia University Station
P.O. Box 250288
New York, NY 10025-0288

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You Won’t Let the BioBus Fail

Sunday, June 13th, 2010

“My students LOVED the bio bus. It showed them scientists could be ‘hip and cool’ and they realized not only how important science is, but that it can be really fun and interesting. You reached a lot of students at some very challenging schools.”

Message from Naomi, who brought BioBus to her students at schools across Bronx
Dear BioBus Supporters,

Four days ago, I asked you to help raise $11,000 to fix the BioBus engine. Since then, fifty four BioBus believers have given what they could – $10, $20, $50, $100, $200, even two gifts of $1000 – totaling $5,680. We’re halfway to our goal!

http://biobus.org/donate/

Students are transformed onboard the BioBus. They discover, alongside real scientists, that they are capable of exploring and understanding the microscopic world using research equipment. Students who tell me “science is boring” at the beginning of the lesson are jockeying for more ‘scope time by the end. For almost all students, the BioBus experience positively changes their attitudes toward science. For others, like Taccara at Frederick Douglas Academy III in the Bronx who wants to be a cell biologist after recording a bacterium dividing aboard the BioBus, the BioBus leads to new life aspirations. Here is her movie:

The BioBus cannot continue its mission without your help. No donation is too small; please pledge your support today by visiting:

http://biobus.org/donate

I’d also like to thank you for telling your family, friends, and colleagues about our emergency fundraiser. We’ve received a number of donations this way, so please continue to spread the word! And remember, continue to check out updates on the BioBus Blog, Facebook, and Twitter.

Thank You,
Ben

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