Tomorrow we come together as one people, joined in a common quest to vanquish this debilitating disease for our parents, our friends, our descendants, and ourselves. It will be an honor to break bread with you while we crush Alzheimer's.Pietro Michelucci, lead of EyesOnALZ
We're very excited to announce that at the time of writing we have 19 teams who will join the catchathon from all across the world tomorrow!
We wanted to tell you more about them, and here it is... (more to come!)
Team name: Olivia's Team
Town: Gainesville
Country: USA
The University of Florida Stall Catcher Team includes STEM students and friends! Four team members are PhD students in Biomedical Engineering: Ben Goolsby, Olivia Lanier, Michaela Mertz, and Kaitlynn Olczak. Tom Linehan is a PhD student in mechanical engineering, and Omani Tuitt is an undergraduate student in mechanical engineering. Yash Shah is a PhD student in materials science and engineering. Ariel Lanier is an undergraduate student in chemical engineering at Ohio University. Anne Bottcher is working on a degree in human resources, and is in retail management. Brandi Wisecarver is an elementary school STEM teacher. Matthew King is an independent game developer. We are all very passionate about biomedical research, and think that StallCatchers is an innovative way to both help speed up research analysis and educate the public about current research
Team name: Ugacatchers (event on Facebook)
Town: Kampala
Country: Uganda
Team Ugacatchers ready to crush Alzheimer’s in Stall Catchers, to save lives from the deadly disease Alzheimer’s.
Team name: This is Our Life (group on Facebook)
Town: Watertown, MA
Country: USA
Team name: Kaunas Makerspace (event on Facebook)
Town: Kaunas
Country: Lithuania
Team name: CornellCooperativeHouses (event on Facebook)
Town: Ithaca, NY
Country: USA
Team name: Not catching pokemon tonight (event on Meetup)
Town: Brighton
Country: UK
Team name: Balboa Avenue Citizen Scientists (event on Facebook)
Town: San Diego, CA
Country: USA