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resource project Conferences
The conference will convene library leaders, climate researchers and educators, public health experts, and informal educators to examine the current prevalence of climate related programming in libraries, and how the concept of environmental health can be used by libraries to create locally and culturally relevant, change oriented, and equitable STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) learning experiences.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Anne Holland Noah Lenstra Steph Harmon Paul Dusenbery
resource project Professional Development, Conferences, and Networks
This project from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) is centered on the 2024 Total Solar Eclipse, which will traverse the US from southwest to the northeast, passing over several urban areas.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Linda Shore
resource project Museum and Science Center Exhibits
Researchers at Arizona State University (ASU), in partnership with the Smithsonian Museum on Main Street (MoMS), the Arizona Science Center, and eight tribal and rural museum sites around Arizona, will help educate and empower communities living in the Desert Southwest on water sustainability issues through the creation of WaterSIMmersion, a mixed reality (MR) educational game and accompanying museum exhibit.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Claire Lauer Scotty Craig Mina Johnson-Glenberg Michelle Hale
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 project Media and Technology
Successful peer-to-peer practices in informal science learning (ISL) are often not well defined, but further investigation has the potential to help uncover how to motivate and scaffold children's joint learning in science and engineering. Team Hamster!, a PBS KIDS interactive digital series that helps youth think creatively and use engineering skills to solve problems with everyday tools, will be used to achieve the goals of this project.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Jessica Andrews Jason Yip Melissa Carlson
resource project Media and Technology
This project will focus on understanding how media can improve boys' and girls' perceptions of female scientists and engineers and increase children's understanding of mixed-gender collaborations in STEM.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Sara Sweetman Daniel Whiteson Abdeltawab Hendawi Jorge Cham
resource project Museum and Science Center Exhibits
This project builds on an NSF-funded program which engaged youth in the creation of art-science experiences that use the biology and the experiences of migratory birds as a means for communicating the impact of a changing climate.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Rebecca Safran Shawhin Roudbari Mary Osnes
resource project Community Outreach Programs
This project uses bikes and biking to introduce STEM content and experiences to traditionally underrepresented youth (grades 9-10) by having them participate in place-based informal learning activities.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Noemi Waight Shakhnoza Kayumova Ryan Rish Greses Perez Sarah Robert
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 evaluation Public Programs
This white paper examined the process of evaluating a new Growth Mindset youth program developed for youth in Grades 3-5 in the Northwest suburb communities in Dundee Township, IL.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Luci Hanstedt Drew Glassford Mike LoPresti Mallory Namoff Robert Tai
resource project Public Programs
The program was co-created with practitioners and students who are people of color and/or immigrants, representing a range of gender identities and sexual orientations and neurodivergent individuals alongside facilitators that specialize in helping STEM professionals address social inequities. The IDEAL program supports practitioners in developing self-awareness, readiness, agency, and resources to modify their projects with practices that support belonging, equity, and accessibility.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Caren Cooper Russ Schumacher Monica Ramirez-Andreotta Valerie Johnson Chad Wilsey
resource project Media and Technology
This project aims to (1) advance understanding of sociotechnical ecosystems involving AI to support diasporic urban farming; (2) collaboratively develop AI-based technologies that better integrates and sustains technological gains with diasporic knowledge, and (3) systematically assess the impact of AI-based farming technologies on diasporic communities and industrial partners.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Sucheta Ghoshal Daniela Rosner