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The Science Festival Alliance: Creating a Sustainable National Network of Science Festivals Summary of Year 1 Findings

August 1, 2010 | Public Programs
Goodman Research Group, Inc. (GRG) is serving as the external evaluator of the three-year, NSF-funded Science Festival Alliance (SFA) project with this report summarizing results from the first year of the project. First year data collection was completed in June 2010. It included: Surveys of 1,411 San Diego Science Festival (SDSF) and 1,054 Cambridge Science Festival (CSF) attendees; End-of-year focus groups with each of the festival (SDSF and CSF) team leaders; and An online survey of 11 principal Alliance team members. The report is organized around four key questions: 1. Who participated in the science festivals? 2. What were participants' motivations for attending the festivals? 3. How did participants benefit from the festivals? and 4. How has the Science Festival Alliance developed in its first year?

TEAM MEMBERS

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    Evaluator
    Goodman Research Group, Inc.
  • Science Festival Alliance
    Contributor
  • Molly Priedeman
    Evaluator
    Goodman Research Group, Inc.
  • Rucha Londhe
    Evaluator
    Goodman Research Group, Inc.
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    Evaluator
    Goodman Research Group, Inc.
  • 2013 08 09 Irene Goodman
    Evaluator
    Goodman Research Group, Inc.
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    Funders

    NSF
    Funding Program: AISL; Collaborative Research
    Award Number: 0840333
    Funding Amount: 3090078
    Resource Type: Evaluation Reports
    Discipline: Education and learning science | Engineering | General STEM | Mathematics | Technology
    Audience: Youth/Teen (up to 17) | Families | General Public | Museum/ISE Professionals | Evaluators
    Environment Type: Public Programs | Public Events and Festivals

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