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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

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

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

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

The content below has been updated in the Project Planner Return to Developing Projects (2016) Communication, public engagement, and outreach are areas of activity that can foster curiosity about, appreciation for, or understanding of science concepts, processes and applications. Informal STEM education (ISE) exhibitions, public programs, media, and games also have these and other outcomes ... Read more

The Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings (DRL), within the Directorate for STEM Education (EDU), is actively seeking Program Directors with demonstrated expertise in education research or development within preK-12 formal and or informal learning environments. DRL supports innovative research, development, and evaluation of learning and teaching across all science, technology, engineering, and mathematics ... Read more

Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities (SENCER) Summer Institute 2022 will be held online August 5-7, 2022. Submit proposals here by July 15. Check here for updates. The theme for this year is “Critical contexts and critical pedagogies for stem learning”. How can we go beyond civic engagement to advance democracy, social justice, ... Read more

The Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA) program funds innovative science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and Informal Science Education (ISE) educational projects for pre-kindergarten to grade 12 (P–12).

The Science Events Summit will be held June 5-7, in Cambridge, MA. More information is here. The event is geared towards public science events organizers. It’s not an unconference, but sessions are designed around the interests of attendees. Read more on the about page.  

This article was migrated from a previous version of the Knowledge Base. The date stamp does not reflect the original publication date. Overview  Designing science exhibits for young children involves carefully considering the social context of early childhood learning and understanding the nature of science learning and engagement in early childhood. Findings from Research and Evaluation  ... Read more

The Science Fairs Under the ‘Scope project is looking for interviewees from the informal STEM learning community. Criteria: Interviewee must work at an informal institution (museum, afterschool program, YMCA, library, etc.) that has some involvement with a science fair. Involvement could include hosting a fair or providing space, mentors, materials, or other resources to a science ... Read more

On April 5-6, 2023, Morehead Planetarium and Science Center will host the inaugural Science for All Summit at the Friday Conference Center in Chapel Hill, NC. The Summit is a community convening to advance inclusion, diversity, equity, and access (IDEA) in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). The theme of this year’s Summit is From IDEA ... Read more

The Summit is a community convening to advance access and opportunity in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) for people of all backgrounds and lived experiences. The purpose of the Summit is to engage educators, practitioners, researchers, thought leaders, and other change agents in conversation and knowledge building around emerging issues and ... Read more

This article was migrated from a previous version of the Knowledge Base. The date stamp does not reflect the original publication date. Overview  Interest is a fundamental motivator of behavior and learning, driving humans to explore the world around them and reengage with specific topics, objects, and activities (Hidi & Renninger, 2006; National Research Council, ... Read more

A recent article published in Science, the world’s leading journal of original scientific research, global news, and commentary, mentions informalscience.org as an example of an aggregator website that searches over large data sets. The article, Crowdsourcing and Curating Online Education Resources, co-authored by Darrell Porcello and Sherry Hsi, both at University of California Berkeley, Lawrence ... Read more

The National Science Foundation (NSF) and UK-based Wellcome Trust have announced the funding of five new projects through the Science Learning Plus (SL+) program. The projects will help to increase understanding of how informal science learning activities affect children and young people’s enjoyment and understanding of science. All five are collaborative partnerships between organisations in ... Read more