Create projects with your data!

Public Service Announcements

Be a director.

Make videos that motivate!

Create a quick 30-sec video to raise awareness of an invasive species, protect a native species or habitat, motivate others to look for species....

Make a PSA

Visual Communication

Be a graphic designer.

Make images that inspire!

Create a poster, flyer, or visual call to action! What is your message? Learn from the best and use a design process to make a masterpiece...

Start designing

Species Cards

Be a species expert.

Help others learn about and identify a plant or animal!

Use your own photos, species research, and ID skills to build a card from scratch or update an existing one.

Build an ID card

Blog Posts

Be a writer.

Post to the VS Blog!

Write about your VS experience. Share details about your fieldwork, online and in-person conversations with the community, data crunching, plans for action, ....

Blog it

How-to Guides

Be a mentor.

Share what you know how to do!

Use video, photos, screen capture tools, or paper and pen to show us how to identify a species, do a transect study, use the map, build a weed weasel,....

Create a How-To

Comic Life

Be funny.

Mix science with humor to tell a story!

Mash up science, humor, sketches, and photos to tell us about the native or invasive species you're most interested in.

Craft a Comic

Scratch Program

Be a programmer.

Make interactive games!

Use this easy to learn programming language to develop interactive games, animations, and stories that share what you've learned.

Program a Game

Show Change Over Time

Make movies!

Tell the story of how a species or place changes.

Use movies or interactive timelines to show how invasive species populations are changing over time. Use these tools to explain your predictions for the future!

Make a movie

Field Missions

Be a scientist.

What are you curious about?

Tell us about your Mission and how we can help collect the data you need! What's your question? What species should we look for? Where should we look?

Build your Mission