City Nature Challenge 2024: Myrtle Beach and The Grand Strand's Journal

We had an incredible event this year.
This was our first year for the competition so I was pretty pleased with the participation. I hope everyone had fun and is jazzed to do it all again next year.

I want to give a special shout-out to our top 5 participants

sarah_koeppe---51--observations
merkertgrace ---50--observations
dtoth---16--observations
jendeal---15--observations
sharonoutside--14--observations

Excellent work by everyone.

Here is the request part of the announcement. I will be running the 2025 City Nature Challenge for Myrtle Beach and the Grand Strand. I am pretty good at the technical side of this project but I need partners to help me with promotion. If you are associated with any group or organization that would be able to help me promote the challenge I would like to hear from you.

You can contact me by sending me an email at JimRusconi@gmail.com or you can reply to this message.

Thanks for a great year and I look forward to seeing you again next year.
Jim Rusconi

We have lots of observations and a lot of different kinds of organisms. We are doing great for our first year. Be sure to tell your friends. We have until Midnight Monday to make our observations for the 2024 City Nature Challenge Myrtle Beach and the Grand Strand count.

Take a look at the leaderboard here
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2024-myrtle-beach-and-the-grand-strand

It is day one of the City Nature Challenge

We are now getting to crunch time.
If you can help spread the word here are some ways you can help.

Post a link to our project on any of your social media.
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2024-providence-area

Post a link to our video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xQYdRgKtV4&t=1s

Send our detailed description to friends who express an interest
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JwofyE2VB6n071YVDhnDqarjQZ9pCn-bMTTD-ymPh2Y/edit?usp=sharing

Hi all,
Welcome to this year's city nature challenge. What started as a friendly competition between science centers in Los Angeles and San Francisco has grown into a global effort. Almost 700 cities and areas around the globe are now participating. Watch this space for more details and announcements.

For more history on the overall challenge look here
https://www.citynaturechallenge.org/