PROFILE Shannon McManimon Assistant Professor SUNY New Paltz About informal science Projects LinCT: Linking Educators, Youth, and Learners in Computational Thinking STEM Justice: Building Youth Science Capital Research Embedded Research Practices: Practice as Process, Participatory Method, and Product in Informal Learning Research Tips for Fostering Participatory Research in Informal Learning Bringing the Why to Science Capital: STEM Capitxl and Informal Science Learning On the need for expanded guidance in navigating ethical learning research at science museums 2019 AISL PI Meeting Poster: STEM Justice, renaming and reclaiming theory and methods Modeling Collaboration for Learning: Selected Models of Educator Professional Development from the Science Museum of Minnesota