Video: SCIENCES: Supporting a Community’s Informal Education Needs—Confidence and Empowerment in STEM

This video presents reflections on SCIENCES: Supporting a Community’s Informal Education Needs—Confidence and Empowerment in STEM. SCIENCES brought together Eden Place Nature Center and the Chicago Zoological Society to collaboratively support environmental conservation and lifelong scientific learning in the Fuller Park neighborhood of Chicago. 

The SCIENCES project began in 2013 and focused on adapting existing educational programs into a suite of environmentally focused science learning opportunities for professional, student, and public audiences in the Fuller Park neighborhood. SCIENCES programs included educator professional development, family programs, camp, youth programs, workshops, festivals, conservation action events, school group classes, field trips, and the King Conservation Science Scholars teen volunteer program. Attendance at approximately 90 programs between 2014 and 2017 totaled over 3,800.