Hive Mapping Cooperative

The Hive Mapping Cooperative is a partnership of the Chicago Academy of Science and its Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, Sweet Water Foundation, and Smart Chicago.

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It is an effort to provide teens the ability to collect, manage, analyze, visualize, and share geo-referenced data through open-source mapping and data-sharing software. This project identifies platforms to pilot in existing summer programming and facilitating collaborative youth-guided inquiry, within and across programs, into topics and issues in human ecology and urban ecosystems. By documenting and sharing our work, we will create a toolkit of resources for youth-driven science inquiry that can be shared with other organizations through the Open Science Cooperative.