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We hired 1-3 residents of rural communities to serve as STEM Guides”, connecting youth to informal STEM experiences.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Sue Allen Jan Mokros Jennifer Atkinson Scott Byrd Kate Kastelein
resource research Professional Development, Conferences, and Networks
The 60 million people who live in rural settings are often overlooked as a significantly underrepresented STEM audience. In Sept 2018, a small invited conference brought together innovators and experts in rural STEM learning outside of school, to share lessons learned and plan next steps.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Sue Allen Janice Mokros Tom Keller
resource research Public Programs
This project created a social programmable robot to engage middle school girls in computer programming.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Erin Walker Amy Ogan Kimberly Scott
resource research Public Programs
This poster explores three programs that engage underrepresented youth in physics learning through dance.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Folshade Cromwell Solomon Tracey Wright Lawrence Pratt Vandana Singh Mariah Steele Robin Thompson Dionne Champion Christina Bebe
resource research Public Programs
What if researchers and interpreters had a better way of eliciting, supporting and extending the interests that visitors bring with them to the park? This poster describing the iSWOOP project was presented at the 2019 NSF AISL Principal Investigators Meeting.
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resource research Public Programs
In partnership with the Digital NEST, students engage in near to peer learning with a technical tool for the benefit of a nonprofit that tackles issues the youth are passionate about. Youth build first from an 'internal’ Impactathon, to planning and developing an additional Impactathon for a local partner and then traveling to another partner elsewhere in the state. Participants range from 14 to 24 from UC Santa Cruz students to middle schoolers from Watsonville and Salinas. This poster was presented at the 2019 AISL Principal Investigators Meeting.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Amber Holguin
resource research Informal/Formal Connections
In the face of geographic isolation & turnover, how can informal STEM programs maintain community to change rural school culture? This poster was presented at the 2019 NSF AISL PI Meeting.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Susan Assouline Lori Ihrig Duhita Mahatmya
resource research Professional Development, Conferences, and Networks
Many informal learning institutions are experimenting with STEAM approaches to engage diverse learners. However, what STEAM means, including how to design and enact STEAM experiences, is undertheorized. We are offering a PD series for informal educators that centers around a set of core STEAM practices that support identity work among learners. The series involves in-person sessions, online training, and team coaching during the design phase. This poster was presented at the 2019 NSF AISL Principal Investigators Meeting.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Laura Conner Blakely Tsurusaki Carrie Tzou Mareca Guthrie Stephen Pompea Perrin Teal-Sullivan
resource research Public Programs
This article describes a citizen science project that collects data on sharks.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Michael Bear
resource research Media and Technology
Science centers such as museums and planetariums have used stereoscopic (“three-dimensional”) films to draw interest from and educate their visitors for decades. Despite the fact that most adults who are finished with their formal education get their science knowledge from such free-choice learning settings very little is known about the effect of stereoscopic film presentation on their science learning. We explored this issue by designing a quasi-experimental field trial with a short film about the shape of the Milky Way galaxy. The film was produced based on a set of stereoscopic design
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TEAM MEMBERS: Aaron Price Hee-Sun Lee Mark SubbaRao Evan Kasal Julieta Aguilera
resource research Public Programs
The COMPASS conference will bring together 80 participants for two days in September 2018 at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, CA. The first dissemination will take place in a presentation at the ASTC conference the following month in October 2018. A webinar sharing insights from COMPASS and inviting others to engage will be held in March 2019 hosted by ASTC and accessible by ASTC members and non-members alike. A companion COMPASS e-publication will be released for free download, also in March 2019, with summaries of conference proceedings, key issues identified, case histories of ILAM in
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TEAM MEMBERS: Claire Pillsbury
resource research Public Programs
The project asks, “What are the real outcomes of the zoo or aquarium enterprise, both as a visitor destination and as a public voice in public media?” and has the following three aims: To understand how visitor goals and behavior impact learning. To understand how the conservation education agenda of most Z/As interlaces with those goals. To understand how the public situates the voice of Z/As in society. Project poster presented at the 2019 AISL PI Meeting in Alexandria, VA.
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