About Blackhole Collections


ABOUT BLACKHOLE COLLECTIONS
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Every item in our collection can be rotated up/down/left/right, zoomed-in on, and measured. It's like having access to a professional lab microscope in your living-room... but better!

Our focus is to make interactive imagery so engaging that general public understands and then cares about nature and its hidden treasures. It gets kids excited and engaged so they go outside to explore the backyard. We accomplish our goals by bridging the knowledge gap that keeps the public from reading scientific papers and research. We make it fun to learn in three important ways:

  Pique interest so the learning process can begin
  Simplify terms so the learning process continues
  Self directed and engaging so learning is fun

Kids and the public have the ability to understand the concepts of how and why, as long as difficult terminology is simply defined. Therefore, we reduce the challenge that keeps most people from even beginning the learning process.

What we do and why we do it


We are leaders in developing electronic presentation, outreach, and education tools that bring emotion, clarity, and engagement to the conversation. By enabling more collaboration between colleagues, students, and those government officials responsible for funding allocations, we hope to enable citizen-scientists to assist surveying invasive species. This will give everyone the thrill and opportunity of exploring insects and their biodiversity. The results are a stronger and more profound connection with nature.

How we're funded


Every dollar you donate goes directly toward activities involving scanning more insects and accomplishing our mission of putting science into the minds of the general public. By making science easier to understand, our vision strives for a tighter knit between nature, the environment, and a community that cares. We accept funding through the on-going support of our members, corporate sponsors, grants, foundations, and advertisements.

Rather than just waving our hands and talking the big talk, our actions have proven that we actually get the work done with engineering efficiency. We are excited to have already built the largest spinning, fully interactive, insect collection in the world.

We are scanning as fast as our resources allow, yet have only scratched the tip of the ice-(bug)-berg. As of July 2014, the estimated time-of-completion is a mere 327 years. You can help us go faster.

Getting in contact with us



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