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resource research Exhibitions
This guide shares some of the successes and challenges behind the Science Museum of Minnesota’s Cardboard City exhibition and our partnership with museums across the country through Cardboard Collaborative.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Marjorie Bequette Laura Geake Megan Goeke Sarah Lukowski Robby Callahan Schreiber Bette Schmit
resource research Exhibitions
The Cardboard Collaborative is the product of 10 years of work at the Science Museum of Minnesota and part of a larger collaboration with local community organizations to center BIPOC family priorities and experiences. This guide is intended to share what they have learned and support others to create their own cardboard maker worlds.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Marjorie Bequette Laura Geake
resource project Conferences
Texas Southern University, in partnership with the Innovation Collaborative, will convene a two-year five-phase working conference project to address these issues. This conference project is housed on an HBCU (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) campus that has a museum studies program and a university museum.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Lillian Poats Lucinda Presley
resource evaluation Informal/Formal Connections
This document is the final evaluation report for the project, which focuses both on formative evaluation of the collaborative+interdisciplinary presentation creation process and summative evaluation of audience learning outcomes. 
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TEAM MEMBERS: Justin Reeves Meyer Donnelley (Dolly) Hayde Laura Weiss
resource project Museum and Science Center Exhibits
Historically, many informal learning institutions have not accounted for neurological differences as they planned learning experiences, or they have offered separate programming for autistic individuals to accommodate sensory or behavioral differences. This project will address the limitations of these previous approaches by developing and testing neurodiversity-affirming guidelines for engineering programs in museums and science centers.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Susan Letourneau Sylvia Perez Wendy Martin
resource research Exhibitions
This analysis examines how assembly-style making activities support creative expression and early engineering learning. We suggest makerspace designers and educators consider include assembly-style making activities in the mix of options available to support makers who are less comfortable with making initially.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Marjorie Bequette Sarah Lukowski Bette Schmit
resource evaluation Informal/Formal Connections
This report summarizes findings from the learning event and includes the two instruments developed as part of this project:  The STEM Advocacy Survey which is a 36-item measure that includes four subscales that measure components of STEM Advocacy, including Value of STEM for Society, Knowledge of STEM Advocacy, STEM Advocacy Efficacy, and STEM Advocacy Identification; and the STEM Engagement Survey for Older Adults, a ten-item scale adapted for older populations from a previously developed instrument designed for youth (ActivationLab.org) measuring behavioral, cognitive, and affective
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TEAM MEMBERS: Jennifer Mangold Sarah Olsen Cheryl Brewster Matthew Cannady
resource project Museum and Science Center Exhibits
The Arctic is warming four times faster as a result of climate change than any other region, but the impacts of this warming are not well known beyond the local communities in the region. The Alaska Pacific University (APU) will organize a one-year planning project to further develop relationships with four Indigenous communities along the Alaskan Yukon River who are experiencing environmental and social impacts from the climate crisis.
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TEAM MEMBERS: James Temte Julie Brigham-Grette Blane De St Croix Erin Marbarger
resource research Informal/Formal Connections
Informal STEM learning experiences (ISLEs), such as participating in science, computing, and engineering clubs and camps, have been associated with the development of youth’s science, technology, engineering, and mathematics interests and career aspirations. However, research on ISLEs predominantly focuses on institutional settings such as museums and science centers, which are often discursively inaccessible to youth who identify with minoritized demographic groups. Using latent class analysis, we identify five general profiles (i.e., classes) of childhood participation in ISLEs from data
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TEAM MEMBERS: Remy Dou Heidi Cian Zahra Hazari Philip Sadler Gerhard Sonnert
resource research Higher Education Programs
The project team published a research synopsis article with Futurum Science Careers in Feb 2023 called “How Can Place Attachment Improve Scientific Literacy?”
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TEAM MEMBERS: Julia Parrish Benjamin Haywood
resource evaluation K-12 Programs
The Museum of Science, Boston and Boston University received funding from the National Science Foundation to develop and implement a pilot program mentoring high school students in science research, communication, and education practices, through the lens of experimental psychology research.
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resource evaluation K-12 Programs
The Museum of Science, Boston and Boston University received funding from the National Science Foundation to develop and implement a pilot program mentoring high school students in science research, communication, and education practices, through the lens of experimental psychology research.
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