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Join your colleagues in the science center and museum field this year for the Association of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC) Annual Conference from October 19-22 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. For the first time ever, this year’s conference will have three science museum hosts: Explora, the National Museum of Nuclear Science and History, and the New Mexico ... Read more

The Annual Conference is the largest, most comprehensive zoo and aquarium professionals’ event in the country. Attending the AZA Annual Conference provides opportunities to: Explore ideas and best practices with more than 150 education program sessions, poster presentations, and round-table topic discussions; Discover successes and lessons learned from a community of veterans and young professionals ... Read more

The Annual Conference is the largest, most comprehensive zoo and aquarium professionals’ event in the country. Attending the AZA Annual Conference provides opportunities to: Explore ideas and best practices with more than 150 education program sessions, poster presentations, and round-table topic discussions; Discover successes and lessons learned from a community of veterans and young professionals ... Read more

The Annual Conference is the largest, most comprehensive zoo and aquarium professionals’ event in the country. Attending the AZA Annual Conference provides opportunities to: Explore ideas and best practices with more than 150 education program sessions, poster presentations, and round-table topic discussions Discover successes and lessons learned from a community of veterans and young professionals ... Read more

The Annual Conference is the largest, most comprehensive zoo and aquarium professionals’ event in the country. Attending the AZA Annual Conference provides opportunities to: – Explore ideas and best practices with more than 150 education program sessions, poster presentations, and round-table topic discussions; – Discover successes and lessons learned from a community of veterans and ... Read more

One of the goals of the Association of Zoos and Aquarium (AZA) Conservation Education Committee (CEC) is to connect zoo and aquarium educators with professional content and resources to support them in their practice. For the second year, the CEC is hosting a 3-part webinar series engaging diverse perspectives from the AZA community on current ... Read more

The Association of Science and Technology Centers’ Annual Conference is one of the premier annual events for science-engagement professionals and leaders in science and technology centers and museums as well as allied organizations across North America and around the world. Registrations open in June. Learn more.

Join ASTC staff members Naomi Wallace, Daniel Bateman, and Kelly Tang in a webinar that will provide: an introduction to ASTC’s Digital Accessibility Toolkit and suggestions for effective conference presentations. Receive resources, ask questions, and get excited to be a presenter at ASTC 2024. Learn more and register.

The ASTC Annual Conference is one of the premier annual events for science-engagement professionals and leaders in science and technology centers and museums as well as allied organizations across North America and around the world. Learn more and register.

The ASTC 2025 Annual Conference will take place September 5–8, 2025 in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is the premier global event for the science engagement field. Join us in the San Francisco Bay area to connect with peers from around the world to dive into timely topics like AI and cutting-edge technology, authentically ... Read more

ASTC is updating its strategic framework as we come to the end of our current strategic plan and work to ensure our association is continually adapting to most effectively serve our field.

The Association of Science and Technology Centers’ (ASTC) Community Science Clinics are bi-monthly virtual events for community science practitioners at all levels of experience to talk with their peers and seek advice from colleagues working on community science efforts. The next bi-monthly event will be on Tuesday, June 13th, 2023 from 2-3PM Eastern Time. Learn ... Read more

  If you’re planning to attend ASTC’s 2014 Annual Conference, to be held October 18-21 in Raleigh, North Carolina, and hosted by the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, keep in mind that the early bird registration discount ends July 31. ASTC 2014 will feature more than 100 concurrent educational sessions and 15 preconference workshops, ... Read more

The Association of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC) 2014 Annual Conference will be held October 18-21 in Raleigh, North Carolina, hosted by the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. Conference registration will open in mid-February. Registration rates are as follows: Early Bird (before July 31): $585 for ASTC members, $805 for nonmembers; Advance (August 1-September 20): $685 ... Read more

In October 2001, ASTC’s Board launched a field-wide Equity and Diversity Initiative to attempt to bring balance in the disparity between the diversity of our society and the diversity of professional staff, audience, and board members of the science center field. The primary activity for addressing this disparity is the ASTC Diversity and Leadership Development Fellows Program, originally designed to ... Read more

Learn more and apply for the ASTC New Leaders Fellowship Program 2024-2025 cohort.

The Association of Science-Technology Centers has launched a new video interview series called ASTC On Air. This new series highlights fascinating individuals outside of the science museum field who are doing work that is relevant and interesting to informal learning. The second edition on April 21 at 12:30 PM ET will feature an interview with ... Read more

The Annual Meeting of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific will be held August 2nd-6th in Burlingame, CA. This year’s conference theme explores putting education best practices to work through: supporting the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS); engaging with 21st century media and technology; enhancing science communication skills and practices; evaluating, assessing and documenting EPO ... Read more

An interview with Dennis Schatz, Senior Vice President for Strategic Programs, Pacific Science Center: Program advisor and developer for AFGU. Transcription of Interview with Dennis Schatz Astronomy from the Ground Up goes way back to the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, which was to serve educators and educators broadly, so both informal and formal. We ... Read more

This blog was written by Principals of Group i&i Consultancy, who serve as the External Review Team for the Child Trends News Service project. Introduction The Child Trends News Service (CTNS) produces research-based news designed for public consumption. In 2022, Child Trends is concluding the final year of a Phase II award (#1811007) from the ... Read more

The 2018 Science Media Awards & Summit in the Hub (SMASH18) will take place in Boston from Sept. 25 to 27. Over 300 researchers, content creators, and scientists from around the globe to celebrate their work and discuss the future of science communications. The programming, curated by Jackson Hole WILD and WGBH, includes diverse media topics such as virtual ... Read more

Co-authored with Carrie Tzou The Badges for College Credit (BCC) project (NSF AISL DRL-1322512) is a four-year project that connects informal science learning with higher education by designing badge systems that recognize informal science learning in the form of college credit at the University of Washington Bothell (UWB). The project is a collaboration between the ... Read more

Be A Scientist! (BAS) is a five-year, full-scale development project designed to gather and disseminate data on the implementation and scalability of an informal science education program for underserved communities. In the BAS model, undergraduate engineering students facilitate STEM learning through workshops and other cost-effective strategies targeted at underserved families with children in grades 1-5. ... Read more

Since the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) were released, many science education organizations around the country have been working to develop or enhance programs to align with the new standards. The National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) is organizing a group of expert educators tasked with identifying resources to help educators implement the NGSS. These curators ... Read more

Please join the Visitor Studies Association (VSA)’s Justice and Anti-Racism FIG (JARFIG) for an informal conversation with several authors of the recent Curator article on diversity, equity, access and inclusion practices in informal science institutions. After a brief overview from Dr. Cecilia Garibay around the Organizational-Level Dimensions of DEAI Framework (Garibay & Olson, 2020), the ... Read more