The First Annual #CorsiRosenthalBox Awards continue. Threads embedded in this tweet recognize all of the outstanding recipients of earlier awards. We end w/ the top CR Box Award - The Protecting Others Award (POA) (I know - the name of the award keeps changing).
The Protecting Others Award underscores a movement originally intended for making effective air cleaning accessible & also to provide an opportunity to build in bulk to help others lower their inhalation dose to virus-laden and other aerosols. This award recognizes the latter.💙
There were so many GREAT entries for the POA. So, we will highlight the g💙💙dness of many before announcing our top three awards. I note again that these awards are only for those who submitted replies to the original call as there are others out there doing great work!
Recognition is limited to those who built or are responsible for at least 25 #CorsiRosenthalBox es for others. Apologies to those below this threshold. I will do my best to feature you in future tweets! Keep on building!
Here we go! Applause for each of the following as we march toward our finalists. Please retweet to recognize/thank these wonderful POA recipients. These are provided in no particular order until we get to the finalists.
Big kudos and thank you to ....
Liesl McConchie @LieslMcconchie for 40 to 50 #CorsirosenthalBox es to protect elementary and pre-school students, and others + plans for more in 2023!
Great build! This was seriously considered for the final three, but as a Univ Dean I am trying not to be biased toward universities. But HUGE Terrapin kudos!
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Big kudos and thank you to ....
Robin Pelc, PhD @rpelc for roughly 65 CR Boxes Built with college students, mostly for K-12 schools, a synagogue and others.
Getting children involved in the builds is always a plus and almost got this one into the finals!
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Big kudos and thank you to ....
Carol Matheny @cpmatheny17 for ~30 CR boxes for home, work & church; 8 in sanctuary, confessional, 8 classrooms, 4 social hall (Scouts built 10 in a meeting learning about transmission & indoor air quality).
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Big kudos and thank you to ....
Anna Narvey @NarveyAnna for managing a local health department’s Safer Indoor Air Quality Initiative w/ 50 CR Boxes for daycares & shelters & 50 CR Boxes built @ community citizen science workshops.
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Big kudos and thank you to .....
Joseph M. Braun @JosephMBraun1 for 50 CR Boxes at @Brown_SPH & 4 at home, but also being a great researcher who has shown the added benefits of CR Boxes for removal of PFAs and phthalates from indoor air.
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And now what the CR Box community has been waiting for. The three top places for the prestigious #CorsiRosenthalBox Protecting Others Award.
As usual, the judge could not make a difficult decision and so we have a 3-way tie for 3rd place - shown next in no particular order.
Third-place recipient for the Protecting Others Award
Third-place recipient for the Protecting Others Award
KLINAIR (IG@KLINAIR.ID) @KLINAIR_ID for
50 units so far. Their efforts are focused on under-resourced schools in the Greater Jakarta area & are great promoters of the #CorsiRosenthalBox.
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Onward to the 2nd-place recipient of the Protecting Others Award
Shiven Taneja @ShivenTaneja for 122 #CorsiRosenthalBox es for people all over the Greater Toronto Area. This amazing 15 yo has done so much to help others. Check out his twitter feed. Follow him!
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And now, the moment we have all been waiting for ...
The 1st-place recipient of the 2022 Protecting Others Award
Drum roll .. (it's up to viewers to click the drum roll link).
Congratulations to ...
Vinny Eng 🌈 黃永利 @vinnyeng & colleagues @SaferTogetherSF! They have built & distributed 212 CR Boxes in the last 3 mos to households in SE neighborhoods of San Francisco. This is a great & dedicated group, folks.
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That ends the 1st Annual #CorsiRosenthalBox Awards. Looking forward to gr8 efforts during 2023.
Several additional awards in 2023, including best CR Box with pet photo, most interesting applicaiton (the confessional would have won this year!), etc.
Reply w/ additional ideas!
To those who did not receive #CorsiRosenthalBox awards this year, I applaud & thank you for joining this important movement. 👏👏👏👏👏
I'll retweet many of your entries & hope many others will as well. Why? Because each of you rocks!
Goodnight, folks.
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Selected from the over 600 replies and quote tweets for CR Boxes made in 2022. Wow! What great entries. Almost impossible to select 2022 recipients, & so I encourage the audience to just peruse 👇! Here we go! (long thread & possibly 2)
1/ As I reflect on 2022 I am so proud and honored to serve as Dean of @UCDavisCOE, an extraordinary college community w/ great faculty, amazing staff, & wonderful students and alumni. And to be part of such a great public university as @ucdavis is a dream. 💙
2/ There are so many college highlights from the last year that I cannot list more than a small fraction here. One is that our college had a record year in terms of research expenditures, with an almost 20% increase from last year. And the research is impactful & growing!
3/ Through a robust grassroots effort we developed an exciting new strategic research vision that is already informing important investments, new partnerships, faculty hiring, and more.
1/ "Team airborne won the vitriolic debate about how the SARS-2 viruses spread, but little has been done to make the improvements in indoor air quality that would cut the risk of virus transmission, Scarpino said."
2/ Sad it was vitriolic. I don't think anyone was a winner due to the tragic delays in acknoweldgment of the importance of inhalation of virus-laden aerosols.
Those of us on the "winning" side were deeply frustrated for not having a megaphone like those on the "losing" side.
3/ I agree that little has been done to make the improvements that are needed. But the derivative is positive and we need to work to make the second derivative stays positive as well. Inspired by individuals who are taking the bull by the horns & making improvements themselves.
1/ The trolls, haters, and bots have been out in force lately. I never respond directly, for that provides them a larger audience. Always block those who spew misinformation or who are just mean with words and accusations. A few paraphrased here with responses.
2/ "You are a clown".
Response: Darn right! Really appreciate the compliment.
3/ "And much do you make off that air cleaner" (in response to my promotion of the #CorsiRosenthalBox).
Response: $0, zero, notta. In fact, I have lost as I have spent my own $$$ to build CR boxes for those less fortunate. Your turn. What are you doing?
1/ Thanks, @JeromeAdamsMD. I agree 100% with ROI, particularly for ventilation + equivalent ventilation via filtration & GUV. The #CorsiRosenthalBox was developed specifically to make air cleaning cost accessible to a larger swath of people during the pandemic.
2/ It's been proven through research to be more effective than commercial HEPA air cleaners that cost 3 to 10 times more. That so many people have been able to utilize this open source technology has been a thrill for me.
3/ I am wholly inspired by those who are building CR Boxes in bulk to help others and by those who have continued to evolve the concept in very positive ways.