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This presentation from the 2016 NSF Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) Principal Investigators' Meeting presents an overview of the AISL Online Project Monitoring System (OPMS), including a report-out of findings...
DATE: March 3rd, 2016
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Many tasks in graphical user interfaces require users to interact with elements at various levels of precision. We present FingerGlass, a bimanual technique designed to improve the precision of graphical...
DATE: May 7th, 2011
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How do we know the distance to a star? How do we know what a star is made of? How do we know how fast an object is moving? These...
DATES: August 1st, 1996 - August 31st, 2002
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WGBH is shooting some test footage for a science series on fire. This Small Grant for Exploratory Research will enable the producers to film a major controlled burn, called Frostfire,...
DATES: June 1st, 1999 - November 30th, 1999
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WGBH Educational Foundation is producing a four-hour documentary special, "Fire," to be broadcast as a NOVA special. The series will present the story of fire as an important but often...
DATES: January 1st, 2000 - April 30th, 2003
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The Firefly Watch project is a citizen science program where a network of volunteers across the country observe and collect data on fireflies. Participants are able to post their results...
DATE: January 1st, 2012
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This is a program schedule for the First Annual Visitor Studies Meeting in Oxford, Alabama, April 6-8, 1988....
DATE: January 1st, 1988
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This editorial from the Connected Science Learning Journal celebrates the success of the journal's first issue. It also highlights the journal's switch to a serial format....
DATE: November 15th, 2016
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Implementation of a traveling exhibition on the evolution of hierarchy in prehistoric southeastern Europe.
The Field Museum requests support from the National Endowment for the Humanities for the implementation of a...
DATES: June 1st, 2020 - May 31st, 2022
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First Light is a one-hour documentary to be shown nationally on WGBH-TV's NOVA science series. It tells the extraordinary story behind the building of the Hale Telescope on Palomar Mountain...
DATES: July 1st, 1991 - December 31st, 1992
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The FIRST Longitudinal Study is a multi-year longitudinal study assessing the impacts of FIRST’s afterschool robotics programs on the STEM related interests and educational and career trajectories of program participants....
DATE: April 3rd, 2017
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How can we develop a more expansive, yet critical, view of what we mean by “broadening participation in STEM?” How can our programs be designed or re-designed to more fully integrate evidence on broadening participation? What resources do organizations and individuals need to better document and assess how programs advance broadening participation? These are some ...
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DATE: March 23rd, 2018
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This award provides support for Mr. Kamen to explore the feasibility of developing an interactive educational kiosk (to be named FIRST PLACE), programmed with electronic mathematics and science games and...
DATES: April 15th, 1993 - September 30th, 1994
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Out of 85 scientists and graduate students interviewed, 65% state that their initial interest in science occurred before middle school, particularly for those in physics-related fields. The interest was attributed...
DATE: August 1st, 2011
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This article examines how people learn by actively observing and "listening-in" on ongoing activities as they participate in shared endeavors. Keen observation and listening-in are especially valued and used in...
DATE: January 1st, 2003
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Looking back over the past 5 years of articles published in JCOM, this editorial looks at the topics covered and the geographies represented and asks: are we tackling all main...
DATE: June 22nd, 2016
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In this article, Elizabeth Bogle, president of Limn Studios, analyzes how glass plays a wide variety of roles in exhibit design, all of which involve important technical issues. Bogle presents...
DATE: July 1st, 1999
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The Flathead Community of Resource Educators (CORE) is a consortium of educators in the Flathead Watershed. They produced the Flathead Watershed Sourcebook as a tool to increase understanding and appreciation...
DATES: October 25th, 2013 - October 25th, 2013
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This report provides background information about the Flathead Watershed, the people responsible for funding the project and an depth description of Phase I, the Delphi Survey. The report includes participant...
DATE: June 13th, 2014
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In domains with multiple competing goals, people face a basic challenge: How to make their strategy use flexible enough to deal with shifting circumstances without losing track of their overall...
DATE: October 1st, 1993
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The Museum of Science, Boston will create a customizable digital exhibit platform that can flexibly and inclusively support visitors’ engagement with any topic. Project activities include developing and testing a...
DATES: June 1st, 2021 - August 30th, 2024
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Flight of the Butterflies was released as an IMAX film in October 2012 and, as of summer 2013, has shown in 125 theaters worldwide for nearly two million viewers. The project was made possible thanks to NSF grant DRL-1027588, which helped fund film production, science advisory input, educational outreach development and project evaluation. SK Films ...
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DATE: November 20th, 2015
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The Maryland Science Center, in partnership with SK Films, Inc. received NSF funding to produce a large format, 2D/3D film and multi-component educational materials and activities on the annual migration...
DATES: January 1st, 2010 - June 30th, 2015
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This report details the summative evaluation of the Flight of the Butterflies IMAX film. Four focus with a total of 39 participants took part. They watched the film in either...
DATE: August 4th, 2015
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Flight of the Butterflies, which was featured as the CAISE Spotlight in July, recently received several awards from the Giant Screen Cinema Association (GSCA). The GSCA Achievement Awards “recognize excellence in giant screen filmmaking, marketing, and lifelong learning.” Flight of the Butterflies won Best Film in the categories of Short Subject and Lifelong Learning, as ...
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DATE: November 23rd, 2015