PROFILE

Karen Peterson

Principal Investigator, National Girls Collaborative Project||Chief Executive Officer, National Girls Collaborative

National Girls Collaborative Project

About informal science

Projects

BRITE Girls Online STEM Practices: Building Relevance and Identity to Transform Experiences SciGirls in the National Parks: Building Positive STEM Identities in Underserved Girls in Citizen Science Programs Using Gender Equitable and Culturally Responsive Practices From Common Measures to Measures in Common: A Convening to Enhance Measurement of Outcomes of Afterschool STEM Programs

Code: SciGirls! Media to Engage Girls in Computing Pathways Leap into Science: Cultivating a National Network for Informal Science and Literacy DCL: NSF INCLUDES: Informing the Design of the INCLUDES Alliances and National Network: An Intersectionality Approach SciGirls CONNECT2: Investigating the Use of Gender Equitable Teaching Strategies to Support STEM Identity Development in Youth Full-Scale Development: "Citizen SciGirls" Transmedia and Research to Encourage Girls in STEM (SciGirls Season 3) National Girls Collaborative Project: Building the Capacity of STEM Practitioners to Develop a Diverse Workforce SciGirls Season 2 SciGirls TV Series, Website and Outreach - Season Two SciGirls - A New National TV Series

Research

2023 AISL Awardee Mini-Poster: 2215138 2021 Poster - SciGirls in the National Parks The STEM Effect: An Action Agenda for Assessing the Long-term Impact of STEM Programs for Girls

Storybooks and STEM: Using Books as a Tool to Support Early Childhood Family STEM Learning 2019 AISL PI Meeting Poster - Code: SciGirls! 2019 AISL PI Meeting Poster: SciGirls Connect2 A Report on the NSF ITEST Convening: Defining an Afterschool Research Agenda

Evaluation

Lessons Learned from and for the Field: Cultivating a National Network for Informal Science and Literacy through Leap into Science