Welcome to STEM Saturday number 9 on the Steem blockchain. In celebration of the occasion, I have once again promoted a Popular STEM post to the top of the /promoted list.

^{Pixabay license from Gerd Altmann at pixabay}

Before moving on to the promoted post. I want to announce a new, experimental program. Starting today, I will "pin" the top-2 promoted posts in our community^*. This means that they will be among the first posts seen when someone visits our community page. So, if you want to see one of our community's posts near the top of the community, then go ahead and promote it by sending some amount of SBDs to @null with a memo field like: @author/permlink. The promotion amount can be as little as 0.001 SBD.

Here's what a "pinned" post looks like:

For the time being, pinning the posts will be done manually, so I'll try to check this page daily for new promotions. Updates won't happen in real time. If I happen to miss one, please feel free to let me know. If it works out, then maybe I'll automate it.

*I make no guarantees and I reserve the right to exercise editorial discretion on the posts that get pinned

Now, on to the promotion

This marks the ninth consecutive Saturday that our community has held the top of the /promoted page.

The Post

This week's promoted post is Our price of living in community. from @jorgebgt.

As with prior weeks, the post was passed through three separate online plagiarism checks before promotion.

Here is the post at the top of /promoted:

Promotion Cost

In order to promote the post, I burned 0.50 SBD (equivalent to about 2.03 STEEM) by sending it to @null with the memo field set to: @jorgebgt/our-price-of-living-in-community.

The Community

The Popular STEM community is intended to be a place for accessible STEM conversations (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics). If you have an interest in STEM topics, please come join us!

About STEM Saturday

If members would like to have your own STEM content considered for future promotions, please come join us and start contributing. I don't know how long I'll be continuing the tradition, but while I do, here are the minimum requirements for consideration (subject to change without notice ;-).

1. Original, plagiarism-free content
2. Minimum word count: currently 300 words, but this may be adjusted.
3. The content must not be cross-posted on other web sites or blockchains. Correct use of the #steemexclusive tag is encouraged.
4. English language. (sorry, it's the only one I know)

All community members are invited to create original and exclusive content that can be considered for future promotions.

Lastly, before STEM Saturday was caturday, so this week's obligatory cat picture is from Jaclyn Wildcat at Pixabay.

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