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In our “REVISE-in the Conversation” webinar, the REVISE team aims to revise the conversation about informal sciences by centering equity and the voices of those in the informal sciences field who have been historically excluded, marginalized, and negatively impacted.

This Knowledge Base article was written collaboratively with contributions from Scott Pattison and Elsa Bailey. This article was migrated from an older version of InformalScience.org. The datestamp does not reflect the actual publication date. Overview  Parents and other primary caregivers are among the most influential factors in young children’s learning and development (Institute of Medicine & National Research ... Read more

The second Sackler Colloquium on the Science of Science Communication, which took place in September 2013, was both webcast and recorded. Panels and talks have now been posted on the Sackler Colloquia YouTube channel. For more information about the Colloquium, including a list of speakers and session titles, visit the National Academies website, or learn ... Read more

This article was co-authored by David Ucko and Jamie Bell. “It’s when the consensus reports come out that the work begins.”- Dominique Broussard, University of Wisconsin, Madison   This third National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Sackler Colloquium highlighted current issues in the “science of science communication” through presentations by social science researchers, media representatives, and ... Read more

The largest multidisciplinary and multicultural STEM diversity event in the country,  the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science’s (SACNAS) premier conference is a gathering which serves to equip, empower, and energize participants for their academic and professional paths in STEM. Over the course of the event, college-level through professional attendees ... Read more

Join the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Operations Engineering (OE), AI Research Institutes, Combustion & Fire Systems (CFS), Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL), Physics at the Info Frontier for the Summit for AI Institute Leadership (SAIL) 2024 happening at the Pittsburgh Marriott City Center. Both in-person and remote options are available. Registration is limited to AI ... Read more

The 2014 Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) PI Meeting will take place August 20-22 at the Marriott Wardman Park in Washington, DC. Details are forthcoming. For information about past PI Meetings and Summits, visit InformalScience.org.

The 2014 Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) PI Meeting will take place August 21-22 in Washington, DC, with optional technical assistance sessions on August 20. The meeting will take place at the Marriott Wardman Park in Washington, DC. Registration will open later this spring (including a link to make discounted room reservations at the meeting ... Read more

Join PIs, educators, scientists, policymakers, learning researchers, and youth from Sept. 3rd – 5th for the Indigenous Worldviews in Informal Science Education (I-WISE): Integration, Synthesis, and Opportunity conference in Albuquerque, NM. This event will advance research at the convergent margin of Native and Western science in the field of informal STEM learning. Funded by the ... Read more

On May 17th – 23rd, 2016, more than 150 projects will showcase three-minute videos of their innovative work broadening participation and access to STEM. Researchers, practitioners, administrators, policy makers and the general public are invited to view the videos and to interact with each of the presenters online. To participate, visit: http://stemforall2016.videohall.com/ 

November was an exciting and busy month, as CAISE welcomed two new staff members to the CAISE team—Shannon Sullivan as our Project Manager and Sasha Palmquist as our Senior Manager of Community. Both have rich and varied experience in the informal STEM education field and are looking forward to working with the InformalScience.org community. CAISE ... Read more

On September 8, the National Science Foundation (NSF) Education & Human Resources (EHR) Directorate hosted an Open House on the new I-Corps for Learning (I-Corps-L) program. Over the past year, this program provided support for currently funded, innovative NSF projects to develop strategies to successfully “scale up” in a sustainable way. Building on the successful ... Read more

Join the National Girls Collaborative Project, Education Development Center, and practitioners across informal STEM learning spaces to hear reflections from the field on the challenges and opportunities of engaging in equity-centered scaling. 

This Knowledge Base article was written collaboratively with contributions from Karen Knutson and CAISE Admin. This article was migrated from a previous version of the Knowledge Base. The date stamp does not reflect the original publication date. Findings from Research and Evaluation  Teachers conduct field trips for a variety of reasons Numerous studies have examined ... Read more

The University of Rhode Island’s Metcalf Institute, Michigan State University’s Knight Center for Environmental Journalism, and the URI Science and Story Lab launched the SciComm Identities Project (SCIP) to prepare the next generation of science communicators from underrepresented ethnic and racial backgrounds. The ambitious five-year collaborative project, will address a significant gap in science communication ... Read more

Apply for the SciComm Identities Project Fellowship by September 12, 2022. Pre-tenure faculty at U.S. institutions who identify as a member of an underrepresented racial/ethnic group are encouraged to apply. The world needs to hear from diverse scientists and engineers who want to engage with communities and catalyze change. If that sounds like you, we ... Read more

Want to become an author for SciCommBites, or know someone who might? SciCommBites is looking for folks interested in summarizing recent science communication and public engagement research papers. If that sounds like you or someone you know, please apply and share this call with others you think would be interested! SciCommBites is looking for authors ... Read more

Join the American Association for the Advancement of Science S&T Policy Fellowships (STPF) on August 22 at 1 p.m. ET for “Career Exploration & Professional Opportunities for Fellows.” Learn how fellows used the fellowship to explore career paths they had not previously considered. Find out how they leveraged their experiences, grew their skill sets, and expanded their ... Read more

The Science Center World Summit 2014 (SCWS2014), hosted by Technopolis (Mechelen, Belgium) and the Museum of Natural Sciences (Brussels, Belgium) will take place March 17-19, 2014. As the international professional science center community grows and becomes increasingly networked, the organizers are rethinking the structure and focus of the nearly 20-year tradition of hosting world science ... Read more

New to the science center and museum field—or looking for a clearer view of how it all fits together? Join ASTC for a welcoming introduction to the people, organizations, and ideas that shape the global science museum community. This interactive session will explore how science centers and museums operate, highlight key milestones and trends in ... Read more

A national study, publicly released earlier this month, found that visiting science centers is the only type of science learning experience of those studied that proved to inspire youth and adult engagement in STEM. In fact, the study finds that for each additional visit to a science center, youth and adult interest in science and technology ... Read more

Dr. Angela Colbert develops and manages the science communication efforts at the Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science (Frost Science), which will open in a new location in downtown Miami’s Museum Park in early 2017. She works with scientists, staff, interns, and volunteers to ensure that they express the most accurate and up-to-date scientific ... Read more

Join the Science Communication Lab (SCL) as a Civic Science Fellow to help us improve our understanding of the role of documentary film in engaging the public with science. The SCL Civic Science Fellow is an excellent position for someone with experience and interests in science communication and/or education research and evaluation, public engagement, and ... Read more

Kelsey Wright is a junior at The Howard Gardner School in Alexandria, Virginia. She first entered the world of science communication through social media, and has been interested ever since. She spends her free time reading, taking naps, and volunteering at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Her favorite species is Desulforudis audaxviator, a ... Read more

Good science storytelling is a powerful way to bring public attention to remote areas like the polar regions. Stories about the changing poles are common, but don’t capture the complexity of the data.  Polar scientists at any stage of their career are invited to “Polar-izing your Science Impacts: Turn your Research into Science Stories and Take Science ... Read more