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The project seeks to promote the quality content posted on Steemit, the assessment of the quality of the content being achieved by a team of curators with expertise in various STEM disciplines who donate their time for the betterment of Steemit and the community.
 
The project seeks to promote the quality content posted on Steemit, the assessment of the quality of the content being achieved by a team of curators with expertise in various STEM disciplines who donate their time for the betterment of Steemit and the community.
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=== Project Philosophy ===
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As said above, the steemSTEM project aims, on the long term, to spread knowledge of STEM subjects and to increase the quality of the STEM posts through positive reinforcement. Our actions consist of re-steeming and upvoting good STEM posts. The STEEM power used for this task is collected either via a direct delegation to the @steemstem account and/or via the trailing of the account by a bunch of followers.
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We also host and support competitions of various types to encourage people to give their all.
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The SteemSTEM project is committed to distributing STEEM power!
  
  

Revision as of 12:30, 23 August 2017

SteemSTEM was formed for promoting and rewarding STEM (Science, Technology Engineering and Mathematics) content on Steem.[1]. The mid-2017 update of the project has been recently released[2].

The steemSTEM project is a community-supported initiative aiming to increase the quality and the visibility of all posts in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) category on Steemit. The main idea is that the STEM disciplines are core subjects essential to the long term growth and development of Steemit as an internet social media hub.

The project seeks to promote the quality content posted on Steemit, the assessment of the quality of the content being achieved by a team of curators with expertise in various STEM disciplines who donate their time for the betterment of Steemit and the community.

Project Philosophy

As said above, the steemSTEM project aims, on the long term, to spread knowledge of STEM subjects and to increase the quality of the STEM posts through positive reinforcement. Our actions consist of re-steeming and upvoting good STEM posts. The STEEM power used for this task is collected either via a direct delegation to the @steemstem account and/or via the trailing of the account by a bunch of followers.

We also host and support competitions of various types to encourage people to give their all.

The SteemSTEM project is committed to distributing STEEM power!


Community Contact

The easiest way to contact the SteemSTEM team is to visit their channel on rocket.chat. It is also the best place for lively discussing about STEM topics and they enve have a few experts about specific fields. Please pass by: https://steemit.chat/channel/steemSTEM

Curation

The @steemstem account is actively curating posts tagged within the #science category. They are proud to upvote accurate, comprehensive and referenced posts. Once in a while, they select a post for being resteemed and offer to his or her author a reward of 10 SP.

And to prevent from discussions that have been recently held on Steemit: those who work behind the scenes are never (yes: never) resteemed and do not get any SP reward from @steemstem.

SteemSTEM Writing Competitions

One of the ways SteemSTEM promotes STEM content on the Steemit platform consists of hosting writing competitions on the STEM topics. The first event was a real success, with 13 participants who shared a reward pool of about 240 STEEM. The entry to this competition was free and only required you to tag a post with a specific tag. The participants could then write on any topic of their choice, and the comprehensibility, accuracy, format and references of the post were graded by a jury made of steemSTEM members. In February 2017 they annouced the first winners results.[3] Do not hesitate to read the posts of all participants.

Future competitions were planned (with separate prize pool paid in part by donations and the rewards collected by the @steemstem posts.

Behind the Scenes

SteemSTEM is managed behind the scenes by a group of steemians aiming to promote STEM content on steemit. There are no official roles, everybody can contribute in his or her own way and could join us (pay us a visit our rocket chat for discussing this).

The Origins

History is good. History can be found here.[1]

To make a long story short, everything began some time ago with the academiaspotlight series aiming promote the work of new Steemians who were engineers and/or scientists in their real-life jobs. This initiative was however not sufficient to make all good science posts on Steemit noticed and advertised, in particular more than outright-plagiarized science content. With fresh blood being injected, the steemSTEM team has grown and is constituted today of about 10 (more or less) active Steemians.

This consists of the first community of science writers on Steemit.


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Announcing steemSTEM: A Path Toward a Vibrant STEM Community on Steemit. Written by @steemstem in Steemit in October 2016
  2. ↑ An Update on the SteemSTEM Project. Written by @steemstem in Steemit in August 2017
  3. ↑ Results From The First SteemSTEM Writing Competition. Written by @steemstem in Steemit in February 2017

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