Engaging community members in scientific research is immensely valuable, both for participants who learn about the project and contribute to its success, and for researchers who increase the scope and impact of a project. In 2024 and 2025, Bat Conservation International piloted a new community science program for stationary acoustic monitoring of bats. Staff worked with a variety of environmental education organizations, such as master naturalist groups and natural history museums, to connect with participants. Over the two years, 103 people deployed AudioMoth recorders in their communities for at least four nights around the summer solstice. The acoustic data were processed by the National Data Processing Laboratory and uploaded to the North American Bat Monitoring Program database, where they help fill information gaps and contribute to species status and trends analyses. Participants could join two virtual meetings where they learned about the program and explored the data they collected, had access to an online classroom with materials about bat natural history and conservation and a forum where they could interact with program staff and each other, and received individualized reports with their survey results. The pilot assessed participants' experiences via three surveys and identified technological challenges for scaling the program.