Join team WomenInStem, donate computer processing time!

Today’s Take Action post comes from Rachel Ignotofsky

As the world is responding to the COVID-19 virus, its easy to feel anxious, overwhelmed, and helpless. But there are lots of ways we can still engage with and help speed up a COVID-19 treatment and vaccine.

You can donate your computer processing power and time using a program called folding@home to simulate a viral spread and help find a vaccine. Together, your computer will be networked with lots of other computers to create super computers for researchers. This is especially useful if you have a computer with a high powered graphics card (like what you might get for editing or gaming) but any PC or Mac will help!

Join the team WomenInScience (team# 241903) and donate your computing power in 5 easy steps:

  1. Go to foldingathome.org

  2. Click on “start folding” and download folding@home software

  3. Follow instructions to install and run software

  4. Join team WomenInScience 241903

  5. Sit back and let your computer do the work

Read more about Folding@Home’s work on COVID-19 here.

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