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Dr. Alan Friedman, former director of the New York Hall of Science and CAISE Co-PI and Senior Advisor, served as an inspiration and mentor to many professionals in our field. To honor his memory, the Noyce Foundation has made a $500,000 grant to the New York Hall of Science to establish the Alan J. Friedman ... Read more

The 2023 Citizen Science Association conference, C*Sci 2023 in-person event will be held from May 22-26 on the Arizona State University campus in Tempe, Arizona (Phoenix metro area), with select streaming content available to virtual registrants. This event convenes conversations across disciplines, roles, and perspectives. Together, we seek and share the traditional and innovative practices that lead to powerful partnerships for discovery, ... Read more

The Art of Science Learning (AoSL) is a National Science Foundation-funded initiative that explores innovation at the intersection of art, science and learning, using the arts to spark creativity in science education and foster the development of an innovative 21st Century STEM workforce. Our current project, funded by NSF grant DRL-1224111 (“Integrating Informal STEM and ... Read more

This is one of two blogs written by the Principals of Group i&i Consultancy, the External Review Team for the Child Trends News Service (CTNS) Project.   Introduction  The CTNS project is a cross-disciplinary collaboration between Child Trends, the nation’s leading research organization focused on improving the lives of children and youth, and Ivanhoe Broadcast ... Read more

“Citizen Science” has a long and distinguished past. Amateur naturalists such as Charles Darwin made revolutionary discoveries, court officials in ancient Japan documented dates of cherry blossoms, and 14th century French vintners carefully recorded temperature and humidity, data now invaluable as today’s researchers look back at how Citizen Science is also as American as apple ... Read more

The Educating All Learners Alliance (EALA) is excited to launch their 2023 New Champions Fund opportunity! The purpose of this sub-grant is to elevate and grow the profile of not-yet-recognized leaders doing exceptional work who may struggle to be recognized in traditional national fundraising and communication efforts. The EALA New Champions Fund will grant a $35,000 unrestricted sub-grant and ... Read more

The field of citizen science is evolving. CitizenScience.org was founded in 2008 by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology to help share resources for citizen science project leaders, and in the past three years, the National Science Foundation (NSF) Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program has funded nearly two dozen projects that involve citizen science components. ... Read more

This article was co-written by Emlyn Koster, Director of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences and Adjunct Professor at North Carolina State University (NCSU), and Jason Cryan, Deputy Museum Director for Research and Collections at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences and Adjunct Professor at NCSU. Museums of natural history, the natural sciences, ... Read more

The Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University has announced the question issued to scientists for The Flame Challenge™ 2018 – What is Climate?    Contest registration for scientists and student judges opens December 18, 2017. Sign up for email updates about The Flame Challenge™.   This international contest challenges scientists at every level – from graduate ... Read more

The Global Women in STEM Leadership Summit is an initiative founded and led by Engineering Professor Takoi K. Hamrita. This is the only one of its kind two-day summit held in the world that is dedicated to giving women in scientific and technological fields from all career paths access to powerful tools, strategies and connections ... Read more

Ten miles north of Fairbanks, Alaska, a tunnel penetrates a hillside covered by small black spruce trees. The tunnel was built in the 1960s by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. For more than 50 years the Permafrost Tunnel has supported cutting-edge research on permafrost, and in addition has seen a steady stream of visitors ... Read more

This outreach project was born of tragic circumstances. The Gorkha earthquake of 2015 dealt a terrible blow to the central Himalayan nation of Nepal, killing more than 9,000 people. At the time of the earthquake, Diane LaMacchia and I, filmmakers with Earth Images Foundation, were well into post-production of an NSF-supported television documentary about the ... Read more

The Inclusive STEM Teaching Project, a NSF Improving Undergraduate STEM Education program, is hosting a six-week Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) from March 4 – April 26, 2024 via edX.  By participating in this course, you will learn how to: Advance your awareness, self-efficacy, and ability to cultivate inclusive classroom environments; Support your development as ... Read more

ISTELive is one of the world’s most comprehensive edtech events, attended by a global contingent of education leaders, teachers, coaches, librarians/media specialists and more.

As part of the Learning Value of Children’s Museums project, the Association of Children’s Museums and the Museology Graduate Program at the University of Washington are soliciting applications for an upcoming National Symposium. Symposium participants will actively engage in the shaping of a research agenda for the children’s museum field. On September 10-11 in Arlington, ... Read more

As part of their Sackler Colloquia Series, the National Academy of Sciences organized a two-day event on the “Science of Science Communication.” The Colloquium focused on surveying what state-of-the-art empirical social science research tells us about the communication dynamics shaping public engagement and understanding of science issues. Insights, perspectives, resources, and information shared during the ... Read more

Professional networks can provide a supportive, common framework for increasing capacity and development of informal science education (ISE) resources and professionals. In this Perspectives post, Selena Connealy, coordinator of the New Mexico Informal Science Education Network (NM ISE Net) describes how the network got started, what it is doing for its diverse ISE professional members ... Read more

Last month, the State Education and Environmental Roundtable (SEER), North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE), and National Wildlife Federation (NWF) sponsored a webinar on the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and environmental education. The webinar introduced the underlying principles of the NGSS and discussed how environmental educators—including those in informal environments—could be thinking about ... Read more

The NSF 2026 Idea Machine is a competition to inform the U.S. agenda for fundamental science, engineering, and STEM education research by proposing new “Big Ideas” for future investment by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Each of the four winning Big Ideas will receive a cash prize of $26,000 and its authors will be invited ... Read more

The People’s Science Fair, organized by Western Mass Science for the People, will showcase diverse efforts by Western Massachusetts residents to harness STEM for social, economic, racial, environmental, climate, and cultural justice. Participants will include campus-based researchers with justice-oriented projects, grassroots organizers whose work involves STEM knowledge, and student activists committed to building a just ... Read more

Open science has the potential to unlock a world of possibilities: spurring discovery and equitable innovation, bolstering public trust, democratizing access to research, and strengthening evidence-based decision making. These possibilities place open science at the heart of Biden-Harris Administration priorities – from curbing greenhouse gas emissions to reducing social inequalities to ending cancer as we ... Read more

Join the National Girls Collaborative Project (NGCP) to apply research-based collaboration strategies to enhance your science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) activities and programs. Collaboration enables professionals across programs and communities to generate and carry out creative solutions and strategies that maximize benefit beyond what one could accomplish alone, and research suggests that by creating ... Read more

The content below has been updated in the Project Planner Return to Developing Projects (2016) Planning for the life-cycle of a knowledge-building informal STEM education or science communication project starts with an innovative idea and proceeds through the dissemination of products, outcomes and findings for others to learn from. However, project development is often a non-linear ... Read more

This Spotlight was co-written by Doris Ash and Judith Lombana. One of the biggest challenges informal learning institutions [1] will face over the coming century is offering nuanced professional development designed to help educators work more collaboratively and flexibly with culturally and linguistically diverse learners. We (Judith Lomabana, at the Museum of Science and Industry, ... 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 Informal science education organizations can play a key role in addressing the development and strengthening of 21st century skills with their wide variety of audiences, particularly youth. Findings from Research and Evaluation ... Read more