James Portnow, Seattle-based game designer and co-creator of Extra Credits, a web series on pro-social game design.
Raised over $125,000 from over 4,000 people.
James and Extra Credits were featured at SXSW, Gamasutra, and the homepage of Reddit.
Meghan Sebold, Brooklyn-based social entrepreneur and designer.
Raised $5,000 for a sustainable clothing line that uses the textiles and talent of Ghana, West Africa.
Her fashion line, AFIA was featured in EcoSalon, TreeHugger, Refinery29, and is now available in boutiques across NYC.
Aram Bajakian, NYC-based avant-garde guitar player.
Raised $4,000 from fans and strangers to fund his album.
Lou Reed heard Aram and chose him as his new guitarist while Aram's album is now released by John Zorn's Tzadik record label.
Darko Lungulov, Serbia-based award winning international filmmaker.
Raised $9,000 from movie buffs for feature film project Here and There.
Film won "Best New York Narrative" at Tribeca Film Festival, featured in Variety, L.A. Times, New York Times, and was a top-10 indie box office theatrical release.
When Last We Flew, NYC-based Off-Broadway theatrical production team.
Raised $7,000 from theatre fans for the premiere Off-Broadway run.
Show sold-out at NYC Fringe Festival, won a GLAAD Media Award, and was featured in New York Times, Bloomberg, and American Theatre Magazine.
Regan Wann, Kentucky-based small business owner.
Raised $5,000 to expand her tea shop business.
RocketHub campaign featured in the Wall Street Journal exposing her business to millions.
Laura Boyd, NYC-based portrait and landscape photographer.
Raised $6,000 architectural photography project on location in Paris.
Photos featured in Artsicle Photography Show in the heart of Chelsea, NYC via LaunchPad.
Joshua Reuben Lewis, NYC-based singer-songwriter.
Raised $7,500 to record his first album.
Showcased at The Gibson Showroom and made A&R connections at Sony, Warner Music Group, and EMI via LaunchPad.
Paul Davis, Berlin-based fashion designer.
Raised $8,000 from fans and strangers for a new fashion line.
Clothing line featured at Berlin Fashion Week.
Caira Conner, Tennessee based NYU Master of Science.
Raised $2,000 to study Brazilian land and infrastructure development.
Featured in Americas Quarterly, completed innovative research, and submitted successful academic thesis.
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Any contribution of $10 receives: PDF of the study when it's published 15 Fuelers!
Any contribution of $50 receives: Thank you shout-out from my Twitter account 2 Fuelers!
Any contribution of $100 receives: Your name and a "Thank you" in the "Acknowledgements" section of my Master's Thesis. This will be a permanent scientific document, archived online. *Optional, if you'd rather stay anonymous & generous. 6 Fuelers!
Any contribution of $250 receives: Acknowledgement in the author's note of any scientific papers resulting from this project. (Your name will be in a journal article!) *Optional, if you'd rather stay anonymous & extremely generous.
Started by Katelyn Cavanaugh October 31st, 2011
Watch this video to learn more about me, this project, where donations will go, and how they will be used!
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We've all had to do it: complete an online training program for your job...some more interesting than others!
These programs may be designed to give you more control over the program to customize your learning experience (aka Learner Control). You might be able to skip sections you already know (or just don't care about), or spend more time on sections you don't understand.
That sounds like a great idea, right? You know your own learning style, so you should make the best decisions to help you learn. Well, some research shows that Learner Control helps people learn more. But other studies show that it actually decreases learning. And we don't know why! So, I decided to design a study for my Master's Thesis that will explore Learner Control in more detail.
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Past research just assumes that when Learner Control is given, everyone uses it the same way. I think that certain attributes (like your personality or your experience with the topic) will influence the decisions you make in training...and that other people will make different decisions.
I'm actually using crowdsourcing to recruit participants as well, using Amazon's Mechanical Turk (https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome). Workers on mTurk complete tasks for small amounts of money, which means I need funding to run this study! mTurk workers will be tracked as they complete a Microsoft Excel training program so we can figure out what's really going on when people are given the freedom to control their learning experience. But they won't complete the training unless I pay them! All "fuel" will go toward participant incentives to complete the training program.
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By fueling my project, you'll become a part of social science research. Ultimately, you'll make it possible for me to study learner control in the best way possible, which hasn't been done before.
For those of you new to Rockethub, #Scifund is not an investment or charity. It's a way for fans of science become a part of new and exciting research. If I don't reach my financial goal I get to keep what I raise. But if I do reach my goal, I get access to exciting opportunities.