The National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) is seeking a Division Director with an expertise in informal learning. Nominations are due by October 20, 2014. If you would like to nominate a colleague, please e-mail their information to nominations@nsta.org with a letter of nomination to get the process started. Resources for the nomination process are … Read more
The CAISE Perspectives blog and News section shares updates, resources, and other dispatches from the informal STEM learning field. Are you looking to share more detailed information about a project, highlight a new resource, or share your experience at an event? Email CAISE Program & Community Manager Kalie Sacco with a brief description of what … Read more
On October 18-21, CAISE will join our colleagues at the Association of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC) for their annual conference in Raleigh, North Carolina. This conference brings together about 1,700 diverse professionals from nearly 40 countries who work in science museums and related industries. If you’ll be at the conference, please come see us Saturday, Oct. … Read more
This Call to Action was originally posted by Laura Petes and Sarah Hubbard to the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP) blog. America’s students need access to the latest information, knowledge, and skills in order to be prepared for the jobs of the future. This means continually ensuring that citizens of all … Read more
CAISE is pleased to welcome Jared Nielsen as our new Online Producer. Jared joins us after spending several years developing The Hello World Program and Dototot, websites which engage children in learning computer science to kids through videos and interactive tutorials. He has also designed interactive science exhibits at the Natural History Museum of Los … Read more
The Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education (CAISE) will convene an engaging Edit-a-Thon session at the 2015 Association of Science-Technology Centers Annual Conference in MontrĂ©al, Canada. The session will take place on Monday, October 19 at 2:30 PM-5:30 PM in Symphonie 3 at the Hyatt Regency MontrĂ©al. Participants will be invited to collaboratively create … Read more
This month, the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Wellcome Trust, and the U.K. Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) announced 11 new awards that will improve the knowledge base and practice of science learning experiences that happen anywhere and at any time. These awards were made through the Science Learning+ program, which seeks to establish … Read more
The Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education (CAISE) launched InformalScience.org to be a central point of access for informal science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education resources. The site continues to grow and evolve in response to the needs of the field. CAISE recently streamlined the Search tool on InformalScience.org to make it easier … Read more
Next month, CAISE will be Tweeting from the Citizen Science Association (CSA) conference and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting. Follow us on Twitter (@informalscience), and Like us on Facebook, for more updates. The Citizen Science Association’s first conference will take place from February 11-12, 2015, in San Jose, California … Read more
The Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program’s Online Project Monitoring System (OPMS) is on online system that obtains information about the activities and accomplishments of AISL-funded projects. The OPMS is comprised of a series of online surveys that Principal Investigators complete at different points in time during their grant award period. In early March, the … Read more