PROFILE Catherine Eberbach Program Director National Science Foundation About informal science Projects InformalScience.org: Building a Web Community for Informal Science The City as Learning Lab: Spreading Technological Fluency Through Creative Robotics The Children's Adventure Project Elementary, Secondary, and Informal Education: "My Place by the Bay" -- Prepared Environments for Early Science Learning Research From living to virtual: Learning from museum objects From Everyday to Scientific Observation: How Children Learn to Observe the Biologist's World