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2019 AISL PI Meeting Poster: Understanding how narrative elements can shape girls’ engagement in museum-based engineering design tasks

This poster was presented as part of the 2019 AISL PI Meeting. In this project, the New York Hall of Science, in collaboration with the Amazeum (Bentonville, AR), the Tech (San Jose, CA), and the Creativity Labs (Indiana University), is conducting a design-based research study to develop evidence-based guidance about how museums can use narratives to create more equitable and effective engineering experiences for girls. Through iterative activity development, the project team is exploring ways of using narrative elements (such as characters, settings, and problem frames) to communicate a story
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TEAM MEMBERS: Dorothy Bennett Susan Letourneau Katherine Culp
resource evaluation Public Programs

NFB SABER Year One Evaluation Report

The National Federation of the Blind (NFB), in partnership with scholars from Utah State University and educators from the Science Museum of Minnesota (SMM), has developed the Spatial Ability and Blind Engineering Research (SABER) project to assess and improve the spatial ability of blind teens in order to broaden the participation of blind students in STEM fields. Activities began this summer (2018) with a week-long, residential engineering design program for thirty blind high school students at NFB headquarters in Baltimore. The evaluation focused on perceptions of process and measures of
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TEAM MEMBERS: Mary Ann Wojton Joe E Heimlich
resource research Public Programs

2019 AISL PI Meeting Poster: Spatial Ability and Blind Engineering Research

This poster was presented at the 2019 AISL PI Meeting in Washington, DC. It provides an overview of a project designed to broaden participation of blind students in engineering fields through the development of spatial ability skills and the showcasing of nonvisually accessible teaching methods and techniques.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Seth Lamkin Anil Lewis Wade Goodridge Natalie Shaheen Mary Ann Wojton Ann Cunningham Peter Anderson
resource research Media and Technology

2019 AISL PI Meeting Poster: Amazon Adventure: Evaluating the Impact of Narrative in the Giant Screen Format to Engage and Educate

Amazon Adventure is a giant screen film that tells the science adventure story of Henry Bates who travels to the Amazon in the 1850s to find evidence of species change. His quest turns into an 11-year journey in which he discovers 8,000 species new to science and what would be called “Batesian Mimicry”.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Diane Carlson
resource research Media and Technology

2019 AISL PI Meeting Poster: Virtual Coaching in Rural Afterschools & Libraries

By using widely-available technologies, this project brings fully online instructional coaching in STEM to out-of-school educators who live too remotely to attend ongoing in-person workshops.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Sue Allen Perrin Chick Scott Byrd Alexandria Brasili Liv Detrick Lynn Farrin Hannah Lakin
resource research Public Programs

2019 AISL PI Meeting Poster: Building Capacity for Co-Created Public Engagement with Science

The aim of this project is to build capacity among institutions of informal science education (ISE) to design co-created public engagement with science (CCPES) activities in partnership with civic, community, and scientist partners.
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TEAM MEMBERS: David Sittenfeld Larry Bell Amanda Fisher Elizabeth Kollmann
resource research Public Programs

2019 AISL PI Meeting Poster: STEM Guides: Brokering in Rural Ecosystems

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

2019 AISL PI Meeting Poster: A Conference on Informal STEM Learning in Rural Settings

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

2019 AISL PI Meeting Poster: A Social Programmable Robot: Fostering Rapport to Improve Computer Science Skills and Attitudes

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

2019 AISL PI Meeting Poster: Embodied Physics: STEM Learning for Underrepresented Youth

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

2019 AISL PI Meeting Poster: Interpreters and Scientists Working on Our Parks

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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TEAM MEMBERS: Martha Merson Scott Pattison Tracey Wright Louise Allen Nickolay Hristov
resource research Public Programs

2019 NSF AISL PI Meeting - IMPACTATHONS: Student-Led Peer-to-Peer Learning in Community Social-Change Technology Projects

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