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This poster was presented at the 2016 Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) PI Meeting held in Bethesda, MD on February 29-March 2. Science fairs have been taking place for more than 60 years. Yet in spite of their wide implementation and long history, there are few empirical studies that have examined the relationship between student participation in these fairs and their learning and interest in science. Additionally, there have been no studies to understand the real cost of these programs relative to the student benefits. Our 4-year study will be the first step to understanding the
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TEAM MEMBERS: Abigail Levy Jacqueline DeLisi Marian Pasquale
resource research Public Programs
This poster was presented at the 2016 Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) PI Meeting held in Bethesda, MD on February 29-March 2. Native Universe (NU) was designed to build institutional capacity in leadership and practice among scientific museums, in order to increase public understanding of environmental change and the human relationship to nature from Indigenous perspectives, while also providing access to science as practiced in the established scientific community.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Nancy Maryboy Laura Peticolas Leslie Kimura
resource research Public Programs
This poster was presented at the 2016 Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) PI Meeting held in Bethesda, MD on February 29-March 2. The University of Washington Bothell in partnership with three informal science learning institutions coordinate and develop afterschool science programs for high school students. Upon successful completion of the programs, high school students are awarded college credit. The program design and method for issuing college credit is through the design, implementation and issuing of digital badges. The project aims to support programs that engage high school
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resource research Professional Development, Conferences, and Networks
This poster was presented at the 2016 Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) PI Meeting held in Bethesda, MD on February 29-March 2. The goals of SENCER-ISE are to support formal and informal science education partnerships focused on compelling civic issues; examine whether these partnerships can bring about a transformation in STEM educational practices; provide models for others in the wider educational community; and promote confiddence in the notion that informal science education institutional assets are accessible sources of high quality "life-long learning" on matters of science
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TEAM MEMBERS: William Burns Ellen Mappen Hailey Chenevert
resource research Professional Development, Conferences, and Networks
This poster was presented at the 2016 Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) PI Meeting held in Bethesda, MD on February 29-March 2. The aim of this project is to foster activities in science museums through which public audiences can engage with scientists and engineers in conversations about what synthetic biology is, how research is carried out, and the potential products, outcomes, and implications for society of this work. Researchers and publics will explore personal and societal values and priorities as well as research outcomes so that both groups can learn from each other.
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resource research Public Programs
This is a report of a project titled ‘The Contribution of Natural History Museums to Science Education’, funded by the Wellcome Trust and ESRC with a Phase 1 grant from the Science Learning+ initiative. The project explored how Natural History Museums (NHMs) and schools can complement one another to maximise learning among school-age learners, and researched the long-term benefits to learning and engagement with science that NHMs can provide. During the course of our work, our team, which consisted of museum professionals and academics in the UK and the US, worked in the UK and the US with
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TEAM MEMBERS: Michael Reiss Berry Billingsley E. Margaret Evans Richard Kissel Martin Lawrence Menaka Munro Tamjid Mujtaba Mary Oliver Jane Pickering Richard Sheldrake Chia Shen Janet Stott Dean Veall
resource research Media and Technology
This document is developing one of many possible conceptual frameworks for public engagement with science, which is referred to as a “typology.” This typology is designed to help scientists develop a basic sense of the various options to effectively engage public audiences and thus understand the landscape of public engagement with science.
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resource research Exhibitions
This poster was presented at the 2016 Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) PI Meeting held in Bethesda, MD on February 29-March 2. Magnetic Neighborhood is an interactive where visitors build their ideal neighborhood on a cookie tray using magnets of various urban features.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Betsy Loring
resource research Public Programs
This poster was presented at the 2016 Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) PI Meeting held in Bethesda, MD on February 29-March 2. This project addresses gaps in Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) in STEM education by examining contextual factors that influence implementation and practice of STEM programs in underserved communities.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Karen Purcell
resource research Public Programs
This poster was presented at the 2016 Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) PI Meeting held in Bethesda, MD on February 29-March 2. EvalFest is a community of practice designed to test innovative evaluation methods across 24 Science Festivals to measure their impact.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Denise Young Karen Peterman Katherine Nielsen
resource research Exhibitions
This poster was presented at the 2016 Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) PI Meeting held in Bethesda, MD on February 29-March 2. The project studied middle-school students using the Waves exhibit in order to understand how interacting with functional metaphors in a mixed reality environment impacts conceptual change, motivation, and scientific habits of mind while engaged in learning physics content.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Eileen Smith
resource research Public Programs
This poster was presented at the 2016 Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) PI Meeting held in Bethesda, MD on February 29-March 2. This project is exploring and identifying successful, cross-institutional approaches to using maker activities to engage members of communities of color (with a focus on family groups) in STEM activities.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Marjorie Bequette