“The world measured with photonics – With the help of the funding from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research we aim to reach as much citizens as possible. Schools and school labs will be able to integrate the contents of the senseBox in their curriculum and museums or science centers can adopt them for further offers. In addition, the opensensemap will be expanded to include several new features.”

“The University of Münster has developed senseBox, a do-it-yourself kit for stationary and mobile sensor stations – a Citizen Science Toolkit. Citizens with senseBox:home can use the technology for their own local research, to collect environmental data, or to contribute to the openSenseMap sensor network, a platform of open sensor data running on AWS. Currently, over 1 billion measurements are ready for download and analysis. senseBox:edu provides schools and junior scientists with an experimental box with didactical concepts, instructions, and project ideas to help users build and code their own environmental measurement station on the Internet of Things-enabled platform.”
Amazon Web Services

“Through the first first support of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research as part of the Make Light Initiative the senseBox:home and senseBox:edu were further developed as a class set. In addition, it was possible to distribute 100 senseBox:home, to set up a measuring network, and distribute 100 senseBox:edu to student laboratories throughout Germany. Futhermore, it was made possible to develop a coorporate design and this website.”
Photonik Forschung Deutschland

“Through the promotion of the City of Münster we were able to equip four Schools in Münster with the senseBox:edu class set. In Addition the schools received a senbox introduction workshop.”

“Through the promotion of the Sparkasse Münsterland Ost, the first steps of the development of the senseBox were financed. Furthermore the first workshops could be done in schools.”

“Air pressure, temperature or UV radiation are environmental factors that affect our lives every day. With weather apps we learn what we could measure ourselves. The science kit senseBox generates desire for practicing Citizen Science in front of their own doorstep. By actively stimulating them to measure and think, the senseBox team encourages interest in MINT subjects.”
CeBIT Innovation Award 2017

“With the Make Light Challenge 2014 according to the topic “Light(x)ing” the Federal Ministry of Education and Research was looking for light based projects which benefit from the networking advantage. The senseBox took the third place and got the chance to present itself on the Maker Faires in Berlin and Hannover.”
Photonik Campus

“According to the motto “Every week is a code week!” the Code Week Award was able promote creative workshops in Germany related to the coding topic.”
CodeWeek

“As part of the science year 2015 citizen science projects were invited to look for solutions and pursue issues of urban planning and the usage of urban areas.”
Bürger schaffen Wissen