Hi Paul

thanks for your request. Your first few article look fine, however, MAP is not intended for complete newbies on Steemit, but for those who have shown consistent good quality without yet achieving the same level of rewards. This doesn't have to be a long time, usually 3 or 4 weeks is enough to see both the blog and your comments to other Steemit members.

This isn't to put you off, just to say that we have had other members who sought to join very early and who later were formally accepted.

Also, this new method of joining allows us in the MAP community to help you by answering any questions here, within your post comments.

Just for starters, I look forward to seeing your science articles. When you publish, take care with the tags and include the obvious ones, #science and #education, but also #steemstem as they are curators who can give significant upvotes to quality articles.

So, for the moment, let's keep communicating on this forum and give me a prod in a couple of weeks! Would also be good for you to post links to your best articles in these comments to add visibility to other MAP members.

Thanks