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Sara Yeo is an Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Utah. Yeo specializes in science and risk communication, and her research explores the intersection of science, media, and politics. Currently, she is interested in how humor and emotions affect the formation of public attitudes toward science and technology. You can watch this short ... Read more

Victor Lee is an Associate Professor at Stanford University. We interviewed Victor Lee when he was an Associate Professor of Instructional Technology and Learning Sciences at Utah State University. Lee is a learning scientist and technologist who is interested in supporting teaching and learning of STEM content and practices with new technologies in both formal ... Read more

The internet allows sharing of digital data, code, and research articles so that not only scientific results but also the underlying supports and the paths of reasoning are publicly available....

This article discusses the potential for learner engagement in the contexts of a basketball team and a mathematics classroom. The qualitative analysis centers on three aspects of each context: access...

Museums have a great potential to facilitate the political engagement of citizens, intended not in the sense of taking part to the “party politics”, but as full participation in the...

Engaging and Learning for Conservation: Workshop on Public Participation in Scientific Research was held at the American Museum of Natural History 7-8 April 2011. This preliminary report synthesizes the process...

Engaging and Learning for Conservation: Workshop on Public Participation in Scientific Research was held at the American Museum of Natural History 7-8 April 2011. This preliminary report is based on...

As providers of informal STEM education, including libraries, grapple with the issue of offering inclusive programs and meeting the needs of their specific communities, potential program facilitators seek knowledge and...

This paper describes community engagement activities with indigenous heritage and archaeology research in the Caribbean. The practice of local community engagement with the archaeological research process and results can contribute...

The authors of this article advocate for broad opportunities for young children to engage with the natural environment. In one out-of-school time (OST) program, called Animal Rescuers, children aged 10–12...

The Nurture Nature Foundation’s Flood Forum project, funded by a two-year National Science Foundation (NSF) planning grant effective August 1, 2009, explored innovative means to promote science learning by and...

This is one of three focus point presentations as part of the session titled "Community Building for Citizen Science," delivered on day three of the Citizen Science Toolkit Conference at...

Environmental health citizen science (CS) offers a strategy for historically disenfranchised community members to inform research questions, collect and analyze data, and draw conclusions about contaminants in their local environments...

This is an overview of the programs hosted by the Chicago Children's Musuem (CCM) and the Evanston Public Library (EPL). There were a total of eight programs at the CCM: "Making Stringed...

Literacy Volunteers of America (LVA) - Monroe County, Inc. and The College of Exploration are developing and implementing a pilot project to target traditionally under-represented ethnic groups who are limited...

This poster was presented at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, Ontario, CA in April 2019. The project's goal is to identify and document effective processes for engaging engineering...

Engaging Faith-based Communities in Citizen Science through Zooniverse was an 18-month pilot initiative funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Any opinions, findings, or recommendations expressed are those of the authors...

Celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month with the National Informal STEM Education (NISE) Network (September 15th – October 15th each year). Join them for a two-part online workshop focused on engaging Hispanic/Latinx communities. During part 1, participants will hear from those leading their Engaging Hispanic Communities Initiative who will share about forming partnerships with local Hispanic/Latinx ... Read more

While many museums aim to reach underserved or non-traditional audiences, often including immigrant communities, little attention is given to understanding what is actually meant by "immigrant" and how the experience...

This workbook / planning guide was designed as an outreach tool to support students and early-career researchers who are studying the social impacts of energy development and wish to better...

Engaging Latinos in Informal Science Education is designed to address the low participation rate of Latino youth and adults in activities conducted by parks, refuges, nature centers, and other informal...

This fact sheet summarizes findings and recommendations from the Engaging Latino Audiences in Informal Science Education (Connecting Cultures) project. From 2009 through 2013, Environment for the Americas, National Park Service,...

Join CAISE and the Exploratorium’s Generating Engagement and New Initiatives for All Latinos (GENIAL) Summit project leadership on February 27 for an interactive webinar to share results of the NSF Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program-funded Summit (NSF Award #1611143), convened in 2017 in San Francisco. The webinar will be held February 27 from 2:30 ... Read more

Connected Collections Connected Collections are intended to support professional learning conversations about a particular topic, in this case Learning Through Tinkering in STEM Education. A Collection consists of 4-6 research briefs, short synopses of recent research published in peer-reviewed journals, each addressing some key aspect of practice related to the topic. The Collection also provides ... Read more

This article explores the partnership between the Baltimore County 4-H program and the Baltimore County Public Library, which forged a partnership to offer structured experiential programming opportunities to meet the...