A brief summary of CAISE's activities throughout its tenure can be found here. 

Over its term of service to the field, CAISE evolved a Theory of Action:

IF CAISE:

...convenes those working across informal STEM education sectors and settings; connects people and related work; characterizes the state of the field with regard to trends, topics, and approaches through the collection and curation of project examples, scholarship and evaluation reports; and communicates what it learns and creates to the wider field...

THEN CAISE:

...will advance the development of knowledge from practice, research, and evaluation in informal  STEM education, science communication, and engagement.

In 2012 CAISE launched a new InformalScience.org website, integrating content from its previous InSci.org site with other relevant web infrastructure. It contains a community-contributed repository of informal STEM education (ISE) project descriptions, research articles, and evaluation reports and tools dating from the 1980's to the present. 

Team

CAISE was composed of core staff at the Association of Science and Technology Centers in Washington, D.C., and a network of co–principal investigators, staff, advisors, and contractors based at academic institutions and informal STEM education organizations across the United States. Over the course of its history, CAISE engaged thousands of informal STEM learning, science communication, STEM engagement, and broader impacts professionals in inquiry groups, task forces, convenings, edit-a-thons, roundtables, workshops, online forums, and NSF AISL program awardee and Principal Investigator meetings. The team is deeply grateful to those individuals and communities for their countless, rich contributions to our field and knowledge-building efforts. 

Co-Principal Investigators 2016-2022

The following co–Principal Investigators contribute to the project’s vision and the development of CAISE activities and resources.