Spongelab Interactive is building a social networking game to support global Student Scientists through the International Barcode of Life Project
Spongelab Interactive and the Biodiversity Institute (University of Guelph) are finalists in the MacArthur Foundation 2010 International Digital Media Learning Competition for their social networking game called the Biodiversity Challenge. The game is designed to help create student scientists by doing real science in the International Barcode of Life Project (iBOL).
The iBOL project includes biodiversity scientists from 26 countries working to identify every species on the planet using short snippets of DNA. Over the next 5 years, they are hoping to process 5 million specimens and they need student help for complete the list! Students and youth from around the world, along with local scientists at colleges and universities, will participate in a collaborative social networking educational game in a race to identify and assign unique DNA barcodes to as many species as possible
You can see a clip to learn more and you can help support the project by leaving comments about the game project on the MacArthur Foundation website at http://www.dmlcompetition.net/pligg/story.php?title=400!
