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Community STEM Outreach: Summative Evaluation

November 18, 2013 | Public Programs, Exhibitions, Informal/Formal Connections
The Community STEM Outreach Project at the Saint Louis Science Center (SLSC) received funding from the United States Office of Naval Research (ONR) from October 2010 through September 2013. Klein Consulting, with support from Tisdal Consulting, conducted the evaluation of the three-year project. The original proposal from the SLSC to ONR laid the foundation for the Community STEM Outreach Project by describing the institution and its youth program, the Youth Exploring Science (YES) Program. Plans were underway to reach out to existing and new national partners to document and disseminate a successful, replicable, and scalable STEM-focused youth program, YES. The Community STEM Outreach Project was designed to use that dissemination “to meet the Navy’s goal of outreach to the best prepared and brightest youth who will serve as the next generation of Naval recruits to serve our country." The intent was not to use the program to recruit youth to join the Navy after high school. Instead, the idea was to use the YES Program model to create a national collaboration and comprehensive approach to develop programs across the country that were “designed to effectively meet the nation’s needs for the next generation of STEM experts and leaders," whether those experts and leaders are in the military, in STEM fields that support the military, or in fields that support the nation in other roles.

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  • Saint Louis Science Center
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    Evaluator
    Klein Consulting
  • 2014 10 23 01a2764ce1d28af2e21bf9cc169043e30182995a5d
    Evaluator
    Tisdal Consulting
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    Funders

    DOD
    Funding Amount: 2096476
    Resource Type: Research and Evaluation Instruments | Scale | Evaluation Reports
    Discipline: Chemistry | Ecology, forestry, and agriculture | Education and learning science | Engineering | General STEM
    Audience: Middle School Children (11-13) | Youth/Teen (up to 17) | Evaluators
    Environment Type: Public Programs | Community Outreach Programs | Exhibitions | Museum and Science Center Exhibits | Informal/Formal Connections | K-12 Programs

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