SteemSTEM Writing Competition - Sharing Knowledge on Steemit

Today we are announcing the first open SteemSTEM writing competition!

[Join us on #steemSTEM]

One of the goals of the SteemSTEM project is to promote learning. The best way to learn about a topic is often to teach it to others! Steem and Steemit provide us with the unique opportunity to get rewarded for such efforts, and the SteemSTEM initiative affords us the opportunity to further reward the best contributions!

What Am I Supposed To Write About?

The writing prompt for this round is open, so you can write about any topic you are interested in, as long as it is connected to the STEM fields. The only requirement is that YOU find the topic interesting, and think others could learn something by reading about it!

The Potential Prizes

  • 1st Place - 100 Steem Power + 33% of Steem/SBD earned from this post (4.224 STEEM)
  • 2nd Place - 50 Steem Power + 33% of Steem/SBD earned from this post (4.224 STEEM)
  • 3rd Place - 25 Steem Power + 33% of Steem/SBD earned from this post (4.224 STEEM)

If you rank in the top three your post will be re-steemed in addition to the bonus monetary prize.


Three Simple Rules

  • Be Nice
  • Have Fun
  • Cite ALL your sources

Entry

Entry is simple, just tag your post with the dedicated #steemstem-competition1 tag. To make sure your entry is noticed you can join the #SteemSTEM chat and let us know that you submitted a post.


Judging and Ranking

The jury assessing the quality of the posts will be comprised of three members of the SteemSTEM team, @anarchyhasnogods, @lemouth, and @justtryme90.

As with all aspects of the SteemSTEM project, the team is prohibited from participating. All the inputs come from the community and all of the rewards go back to the community!

We will each assign your post a score based on 4 guidelines. Accuracy - 15 pts Comprehensibility - 15 pts Formatting - 5 pts Appropriate citations and references - 5 pts

Accuracy We will check for the scientific accuracy of your post. Remember that spreading inaccurate and/or false information leads to confusion for your readers!

Comprehensibility We will rate on how easy it is to read and understand the text. Garbled text or text that is too technical can be hard to understand. Good scientific writing makes even complex topics seem simple.

Formatting We will rate the post on how good it looks. People notice the formatting before the text. Large solid blocks of text are difficult to read and concentrate on, no matter the comprehensibility of the text. We are not looking for advanced formatting techniques, just basic, solid formatting.

Citations Just citing your sources isn’t always enough. Listing the sources below the block of text you used them in can make it easier to follow what you got from where. The goal of citing information is not just to give credits, it also serves as a way for your readers to learn more if they are interested.

Remember science is a discipline focused on learning and discovery, we should all work to help others achieve that when they read what we write.


After evaluating each post, we (@steemstem) will leave a comment on it with the score and why we scored it like the way we did. We will post the results, emphasize the three top posts (together with the reasons why we have chosen them) once the contest will be over.


Entry starts Monday January 30th and ends Sunday February 5th, exactly one week. The results will be announced within the following week, unless there happens to be a major turnout.


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The SteemSTEM Status Report Dec 21 - Jan 17

[Join us on #steemSTEM]

The steemSTEM project in a nutshell

Just about two months ago, we have decided to relaunch the steemSTEM initiative. To sum up a long story, the steemSTEM project is a community-supported project aiming to increase the quality and the visibility of STEM (STEM is the acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) articles on Steemit.


The Monthly Status Report

The steemSTEM crew has continued to promote quality STEM content posted on Steemit with upvotes, comments and resteems via the @steemstem account. Moreover, an extra bonus reward in Steem Power has been provided directly to all of the the creators of well written, informative and correctly referenced STEM articles chosen for promotion by this project.

Do not therefore hesitate to follow the @steemstem account for being kept up-to-date of good STEM Steemit articles! We try to guarantee at least 5 good posts a week!


We show below the list of posts that we have resteemed and granted a 10SP reward to their author during the last 28 days. Through those rewards we have directly redistributed a total of 240 SP to the community (Also note that no members of the steemSTEM team have received compensation from this project, helping the community grow is it’s own reward).

The list also illustrates the diversity of topics that have attracted the team’s attention. We strive with this to promote all types of authors unknown and well known, big and small. Additionally no topic is off limits for promotion so long as it is STEM related!

It has been a real pleasure to encourage following those authors who work so hard to create great STEM content on Steemit.

The List of SteemSTEM-Acknowledged Authors Over The Past Month

|Author|Post |——|—| |………………………..| …………………………………………………………………………………………….| | @thecryptofiend | Pregnancy Brain: Pregnancy May Lead To Long Lasting Changes in Brain Structure| | @cmp2020 | TIL of a Unique Species of Worm that Can Only Surive in Cold Temperatures| | @dailybitcoinnews |TIL: Japanese Monkey’s Ride Deer Like Horses| | @mynameisbrian |Global Sea Ice Area - This chart should worry you…| | @tfeldman |Educating Steem: The Complications of Obesity| | @funnyman |E-Textiles| | @wakeupnd |Messing with genes could WIPE OUT geniuses from the earth| | @cebymaster |The most significant scientific breakthroughs of 2016| | @giantbear |Til that Albert Einstein truly had the greatest mind of all time - part 2| | @vir |A second look at BPA| | @sirwinchester |Even More Tired After A Long Night’s Sleep ?! Why TOO Much Sleep Isn’t Healthy Either!| | @williambanks |Weird Science! : A hairy situation?| | @rossenpavlov |Colored Water Droplets Come To “Life”| | @vortac |Gridcoin GPU mining (5): Looking at the Sky| | @vir |Immunotherapy is the Future of Cancer Treatment| | @giantbear |TIL what causes our hair to turn white or grey when we get older| | @the-future |NASA mission to an iron and nickel asteroid| | @busser |Controlled ecological life-support systems for space exploration| | @norbu |NASA Has Finished Its Replacement For Hubble, The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), Capable Of Seeing A Bee On The Moon!| | @alcibiades |TIL - Why Do We Divide Days into Hours, Minutes and Seconds| | @alexbeyman |New Antarctic Stations: Living and Working on the Last Unsettled Continent!| | @sykochica |Artificial Intelligence - Part 2: Artificial General Intelligence and Artificial Consciousness| | @surfermarly |‘Creative brains’ - Why (new) businesses spend a fortune on creativity|

Please consider following these great content creators, let us work together to promote sort of quality content that will both help steemit grow strong and keep our minds growing as well.


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The steemSTEM status report - December 1-20

[Join us on #steemSTEM]

The steemSTEM project in a nutshell

At the beginning of this month, 20 days ago, we have decided to relaunch the steemSTEM initiative. To sum up a long story, the steemSTEM project is a community-supported project aiming to increase the quality and the visibility of STEM (STEM is the acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) articles on Steemit.


The 20-days status report

As a first step towards this aim, the steemSTEM crew has started to promote quality STEM content posted on Steemit with upvotes, comments and resteems via the @steemstem account. Moreover, an extra bonus reward in Steem Power has been sometimes given directly to the creators of well written, informative and correctly referenced STEM articles.

Do not therefore hesitate to follow the @steemstem account for being kept up-to-date of good STEM Steemit articles! We try to guarantee at least 5 good posts a week!


We show below the list of posts that we have resteemed and granted a 5SP reward to their author during the last 20 days. We have hence redistributed a total of 155 SP to the community (and we recall that all steemSTEM members are working freely for the beauty of the project)!

The list also illustrates the diversity of topics that have attracted our attention. It is a real pleasure to encourage following those authors who create great STEM content on Steemit.

Finally, as a Christmas present, we have decided to increase the reward to 10 SP from now on.

The numbers and the list of steemSTEM-acknowledged authors

|Author|Post |——|—| |………………………..| …………………………………………………………………………………………….| | @funnyman | blue-brain| | @dragosroua | til-that-antimatter-can-and-has-been-measured| | @krnel |milestone-antimatter-test-is-a-success| | @papa-pepper |something-i-never-knew-about-dolphins-until-now| | @doitvoluntarily |broccoli-has-a-lot-to-offer| | @sykochica |til-archaea-extreme-extremophiles-and-more| | @mrwang |til-why-my-pee-smells-skunky| | @krnel |bigger-brains-bigger-burden-or-bigger-benefit-new-study-has-answers| | @solarguy |cool-new-device-turns-body-movement-into-an-alternative-energy-source| | @surfermarly |til-how-smart-today-s-ai-artificial-intelligence-is-the-art-of-rebuilding-human-conscious| | @acondor |go-to-the-ants-an-inquiry-into-an-amazing-world| | @eugenia |til-why-do-we-have-chills-and-goosebumps-when-listening-to-music-detailed-explanation| | @natord |the-brightest-stars-in-the-night-sky| | @darthnava |top-5-galaxies-that-look-awesome| | @rmach |useless-information-24-as-if-they-weren-t-weird-enough-til-platypuses-are-also-venomous| | @remlaps |how-do-single-celled-organisms-act-in-groups| | @valth |some-harmless-animal-species-imitate-the-warning-signs-of-harmful-species-to-scare-predators-amazing-animal-adaptations-7| | @beowulfoflegend |tibetans-the-tibetan-mastiff-and-how-sex-with-strangers-made-both| | @krnel |the-future-of-water-on-earth-some-countries-are-drying-up| | @alcibiades |til-why-haven-t-we-created-artificial-gravity| | @sykochica |elon-musk-and-google-open-their-artificial-intelligence-platforms-to-researchers| | @remlaps |ten-rules-for-development-of-biological-databases| | @valth |mushrooms-can-have-4-000-different-sexes| | @doitvoluntarily |uncovering-the-underlying-algorithm-of-intelligence| | @infovore |like-humans-a-look-into-how-animals-learn| | @natord |hela-immortality-for-the-benefit-of-others| | @valth |why-many-plants-decide-to-reproduce-asexually| | @atiliog |english-pareidolias-have-you-seen-faces-or-figures-where-there-are-none| | @liliana.duarte |introduced-species-that-became-invasive| | @builderofcastles |a-solar-powered-electrical-plant-that-could-be-built-right-now-from-parts-on-alibaba| | @rmach |useless-information-15-winning-nobel-prizes-working-as-volunteers-yes-it-happened|

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Relaunching SteemSTEM: Increasing Visibility and Rewards to STEM Content on Steemit

What is steemSTEM?

The steemSTEM project is a community supported initiative to increase both the quality as well as visibility of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) posts on Steemit.

[Join us on #steemSTEM]

The mission

The project and its members seek to achieve this goal through direct promotion of quality content (through upvotes, comments and resteem via the @steemstem account). Additional bonus rewards in Steem/Steem Power/SBD are sometimes given directly to the creators of well written, informative and clearly cited STEM content, with an added focus on promoting the topics that are of the most interest to the community (based on community engagement).

The assessment of the quality of the content is achieved by a team of anonymous curators with expertise in various STEM disciplines who donate their time (free of charge) for the betterment of Steemit and the community.



Author Guidelines

What does it take to be steemSTEM approved?

Approval for promotion by the project is open to any imaginable topic so long as it is related to a STEM discipline. Science is best learned when an open conversation can be had, so that no topic, even controversial issues, is off limits for promotion by this project.

Additionally any biases by members of the curation team are not to influence the selection. The steemSTEM project is not out to criticise any viewpoint, and will actively promote even those topics that the members disagree with.

That said, open disclosure of sources is an absolute must in scientific writing. Authors must provide citations for all images and resources used in the construction of the posted materials. Additionally, all facts must be supported by accessible sources.

Preventing the spread of plagiarism is imperative to the future success of Steemit, and the steemSTEM project will take these issues seriously. Authors are free to utilize the #steemSTEM tag in their posts set of tags to indicate they wish to be considered for promotion by @steemstem.

Upon approval of a post by the steemSTEM team, the author will be provided with a “steemSTEM approved” image in a comment that they can edit into their post and display, to serve as a badge of quality such that readers and voters know that they are supporting high quality STEM content.


The SteemSTEM Team

The steemSTEM team consists of @lemouth (high-energy physics), @justtryme90 (biochemistry), @herpetologyguy (biology), @cristi, @logic, @pjheinz, @anarchyhasnogods, @kevinwong (advisory) and @donkeypong (advisory) as well as other anonymous curators.



Stay tuned and do not hesitate to double-check the @steemstem’s presence in the #science category, with upvotes, resteems, comments and/or rewards for all good posts.

[image credits: @kevinwong]

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Announcing steemSTEM: A Path Toward a Vibrant STEM Community on Steemit

This Post Shows How a Community of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Writers Was Born On Steemit

The steemSTEM Team: @justtryme90 (a biochemist), @lemouth (a theoretical particle physicist), @coinbitgold (a science and technology writer), @cristi (an independent researcher and writer) and @herpetologyguy (an ecologist) plus contributions from @donkeypong, @wingz, @gavvet and others. Several team members volunteer and dedicate both their time and knowledge to this project for free.

The Steemit Chat Channel: #steemSTEM



Announcing steemSTEM, a Science - Technology - Engineering - Mathematics Project on Steemit

The Origins

Everything began some time ago when @coinbitgold initiated the academiaspotlight series to promote the work of new Steemians who are engineers and/or scientists in their day jobs. She quickly realized that she was only able to help one person at a time with each review post, and that many other good science posts still went unnoticed and silenced. Moreover, she became frustrated seeing some outright-plagiarized science content rewarded more than the good content! At this point she considered leaving Steemit for good.

Yet just as things were looking their worst she met @wingz who suggested starting a science community on Steemit! At the same time, she met real-life scientists and active contributors like @justtryme90 and @lemouth who were also working to grow the Steemit science community day by day.

Together, a community of science writers on Steemit was born.


A New Hope

And do you think they lived happily ever after? Of course not. The group still watched as some partially or totally inaccurate science content got trendy and upvoted a lot! Still they did not give up, they pushed forward and kept supporting each other.

Soon, an Initiative Started…

This group now consisting of scientists, engineers, mathematicians, science and technology writers, @justtryme90 @lemouth @coinbitgold @herpetologyguy @pjheinz @team.leibniz @cristi @valenttina @krishtopa @deviedev @daut44 @logic and others. Everyone shared their views on the future of science on Steemit.


The Initiatives

And we are here today to announce the steemSTEM initiative!

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Goals

  • Foster the STEM spirit and a constructive STEM environment for STEM writers on Steemit.

  • Raise the quality of the current STEM content via feedback to authors.

  • Increase the quality of the discussions originating from STEM posts (as comments to the posts).

  • Recruit established STEM bloggers to expand the content already discussed on Steemit.

  • Organize events such as interviews, AMAs and competitions.

  • Promote the work of current and future STEM writers on Steemit.



How Can You Help The steemSTEM Initiative?

  • Spread the news about the #steemSTEM channel on the Steemit chat!

  • If you identify a new STEM writer, please do not hesitate to direct them to the #steemSTEM channel.

  • If you are a real-life scientist/engineer/mathematician with expertise in a STEM field and feel that you can fill in some of the gaps currently lacking in background and knowledge, please do not hesitate to join the #steemSTEM channel and discuss with us.

    • From time to time, we will be holding STEM AMAs, competitions and interviews revolving around STEM. Do watch out for them and show your support with comments, votes and participation!



Resteem, resteem and resteem!



ALL funds raised by posts of the @steemstem account will be used by the steemSTEM initiative to recruit established STEM bloggers, provide rewards and prizes for STEM events and competitions, and provide additional curation and upvotes for STEM posts on Steemit.


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