It's a common plea of the modern parent: Put down your devices and go outside."The same way that you might use a dating app to meet someone, you use the technology to be able to facilitate that first interaction," Galle tells CNBC Make It. "But, hopefully, if the relationship progresses, it moves into real life — being out in nature more, and hopefully increasing that appetite for more.
"Before, you might look into, 'What are natural protected areas in and around my community that I could visit during those four days?'" she says. "During, you're on location. You're using iNaturalist, the app, to photograph and identify and then upload these findings. The after period might be doing a lot of research, and trying to identify what it is that you did, and seeing how your city scored.