Foldit is a revolutionary crowdsourcing computer game enabling you to contribute to important scientific research. This page describes the science behind Foldit and how your playing can help.

This event is a 2-hour virtual workshop introducing students to the puzzle-solving potential of crowdsourced research.

Each Citizen Science Featurette includes:

1. Orientation and training in the project’s methodology
2. Hands-on “field-test” of the project interface
3. Debrief and discussion 

This event is open to participants of all disciplines and skill levels and requires no special knowledge or skills to participate. 

This event is scheduled for Thursday, September 30th from 2-4 pm ET. The set-up instructions and Zoom link will be sent to you via a reminder email 24 hours prior to the workshop.

Have a favorite project you want to introduce to the CMU community? Fill out this form to add it to the list. Projects will be selected monthly by popular vote.

Online Workshop Information:

• The link to join this event will be found in your reminder email.
• Please join a few minutes early to ensure that your audio setup is working correctly
• All events are shown in Pittsburgh (ET) time. Visit this time zone converter to see when this event will take place in your time zone.

OSDC’s Citizen Science programming is designed to engage the public in the scientific process by connecting them to active citizen science projects opportunities online and in the local community and provide researchers access to large pools of volunteers to enable large scale data collection and processing. Read more about Citizen Science at CMU.