Richard Dawkins Foundation For Reason And Science

Programs: Website: the rebuilt website brings the latest in secular and science news, as well as secular and science blogs and podcasts, to a worldwide community. The website attracts over 1. 8 million visitors to the website every month. Facebook: the foundation's active facebook page has more than 1. 1 million likes. Its content is constantly being refreshed. Youtube: the foundation's youtube channel has dozens of hours of educational and awareness-raising videos on secularism and science. The foundation regularly posts new videos produced with content gathered at public events and developed in-house. The you tube channel now tops 200,000 subscribers. Subtitles project: the foundation is transcribing our extensive youtube video library into english subtitles with time-stamping, and then translating the subtitles into other languages to make our videos available to various native language speakers worldwide. Openly secular - the mission of openly secular is to eliminate discriminationandincrease acceptance by getting secular people - including atheists, freethinkers, agnostics, humnaists and nonreligious people to be open about their beliefs. Teacher institute for evolutionary science: ties purpose is to give middle school teachers the tools they need to teach evolution to their students. The foundation has created a daylong workshop for middle school teachers that includes powerpoint presentations, labs, teacher lesson plans and other resources. The program will be presented by experts to classes of middle school teachers and all the resources will be available online. Scopes challenge: the scopes challenge commemorates the 90th anniversary of the scopes "monkey" trial by paying for the licensing fees for up to 90 performances of the play "inherit the wind" at high schools around the united states.