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DATE: March 9th, 2022
On remote Pacific islands, water insecurity is growing. More frequent and severe floods and droughts, rising sea levels, and development threaten already limited potable water supplies. In response, Water for Life (WfL; NSF AISL award 1224185) is building communities’ water literacy while improving their access to high quality drinking water. Organized and run through Pacific ...
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DATE: May 2nd, 2016
As part of our ongoing efforts to gather important insights from the ISE community, we are offering this listening session as an alternative mode to our ISE Equity Matters Survey.
DATE: May 21st, 2024
The Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education (CAISE) is looking for a Communications Coordinator to join our Washington, DC-based team. Note that we are also hiring a Senior Manager of Community and Project Manager. Learn more about our recent team transitions. CAISE is based at the Association of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC) in Washington, DC. The position is full-time, 40 hours per week and is ...
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DATE: August 19th, 2019
THIS POSITION IS NOW CLOSED. The Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education (CAISE) is looking for a Project Manager to join our Washington, DC-based team. Note that we are also hiring a Senior Manager of Community and Communications Coordinator. Learn more about our recent team transitions. CAISE is based at the Association of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC) in Washington, DC. The position is full-time, 40 hours ...
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DATE: August 19th, 2019
The Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education (CAISE) is looking for a Senior Manager of Community to join our Washington, DC-based team. Note that we are also hiring a Project Manager and Communications Coordinator. Learn more about our recent team transitions. CAISE is based at the Association of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC) in Washington, DC. The position is full-time, 40 hours per week and ...
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DATE: August 19th, 2019
Join STELAR as they host the first in a series of webinars showcasing the work of their Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility (DEIA) Advisors. On Thursday, October 31, STELAR will host Drs. Chris Meyer and Julie Poynsenby of the Coeur d’Alene Tribe Department of Education as they discuss colonialism and how it is deeply embedded ...
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DATE: October 24th, 2024
Proposals to the National Science Foundation’s Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program are due on November 6, 2017. This pre-recorded webcast is an in-depth review of the AISL Solicitation (NSF 17-573). It is a complement to the AISL Overview webinar (see archived materials) but provides more detail and addresses nuances not covered in the AISL ...
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DATE: August 25th, 2017
The National Science Foundation (NSF) hereby solicits proposals for the establishment of the Arecibo Center for STEM Education and Research (ACSER) at the original site of the Arecibo Observatory (AO). Arecibo Center for STEM Education and Research (ACSER)
DATE: December 12th, 2022
The National Science Foundation has a new Dear Colleague Letter: Mid-Scale Research Infrastructure Incubators and Conferences for STEM Education Research with a Focus on Education Equity. Proposal deadlines are 7/1/2022, 9/1/2022, and 3/1/2023. Join an informational webinar on June 14, 3-4PM ET. May 11, 2022 Dear Colleagues: With this Dear Colleague Letter (DCL), the ...
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DATE: June 2nd, 2022
On behalf of NSF, we are writing to let you know that the ITEST Program is holding an informational webinar regarding its call for resource center proposals. Information about the ITEST Resource Center responsibilities is available in the current ITEST program solicitation: https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2022/nsf22585/nsf22585.htm The webinar will be held on June 7th from 1pm to 2pm Eastern Time (US and ...
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DATE: June 2nd, 2022
Join U.S. National Science Foundation staff for a webinar on the new funding opportunities available for advancing K-12 artificial intelligence education.
DATE: September 29th, 2025
This 60-minute webinar will provide an overview of the new Dear Colleague Letter (DCL), inviting supplemental funding requests (up to $25,000) from current NSF awardees in the Directorate for STEM Education.
DATE: September 11th, 2025
Thank you to everyone who attended our recent webinar on defining and measuring STEM interest, identity, and engagement! We hope that it exposed you to new perspectives on these concepts and inspired you to explore new approaches and tools for your informal STEM education work. Watch the recording below and download the presentation slides. More ...
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DATE: August 20th, 2019
Dear Colleague: The new NSF Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) solicitation (NSF 17-573) was released in July. NSF Program Officers will present a webinar on the solicitation on Thursday, August 24 from 2:00-3:30 PM EDT. This is an opportunity to hear from NSF Program Officers and CAISE staff during a webinar focused on an overview of ...
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DATE: August 2nd, 2017
Join SciStarter, STAR Net, and the Collaborative Summer Reading Program for an engaging webinar that explores how libraries can bring the 2024 Summer Reading Theme, Color Our World, to life through citizen science. Discover hands-on STEM activities for all ages, from exploring the wonders of space to uncovering the mysteries of the deep sea. Learn ...
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DATE: December 11th, 2024
The Network for the Public Communication of Science and Technology (PCST Network) will be holding their 2023 conference in Rotterdam, The Netherlands from 12 to 14 April, with a pre-conference day on 11 April 2023. With PCST 2023 focusing on diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility (DEIA), some of their members thought they should have a ...
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DATE: March 10th, 2023
The Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs (IWGYP) is sponsoring a webinar to help organizations working to improve youth and young adult outcomes learn more about how partnering with young people from the start leads to more effective and impactful outcomes. This webinar will help organizations working to improve youth and young adult outcomes learn ...
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DATE: September 3rd, 2024
This webinar will describe a multi-site co-design effort that brought together three museums, autistic youth, researchers, and evaluators to create neurodiversity-affirming engineering activities (NSF award #2313850). Presenters will share a framework and practical guidelines based on Universal Design for Learning principles, along with specific strategies that made activities more accessible, and research evidence about the ...
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DATE: August 3rd, 2026
Are you interested in building or strengthening your organization’s relationships with local Indigenous communities? In this webinar, the Long Island Children’s Museum, Denise Silva-Dennis of the Shinnecock Nation, and Allison McGovern, an Anthropological Archaeologist discuss the ways in which they, and others, collaborated to make connections, deepen cultural understanding and share learning. Value is given ...
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DATE: October 28th, 2024
The Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education (CAISE) co-principal investigators, staff and advisors wish all in the STEM education communities- informal, formal and everything in-between a productive, rewarding new year. In our January newsletter, we include pieces that follow up on or are related our major initiatives. The Portal to the Public program ...
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DATE: November 23rd, 2015
CAISE is very pleased to welcome Grace Troxel as our Digital Librarian and Collection Analyst. Grace will be assisting with a variety of activities on InformalScience.org, including cataloging and curating new project, research, and evaluation resources. Grace is originally from Portage, Pennsylvania. Prior to joining CAISE, she worked as a librarian on contract at the ...
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DATE: November 23rd, 2015
Welcome, and thanks for visiting! The Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education (CAISE) launched a newly redesigned InformalScience.org in May 2013 to serve as a primary resource for informal science education (ISE) professionals. Site users can share and access project, evaluation, and research resources, as well as get up-to-date news about the ISE field ...
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DATE: November 20th, 2015
Welcome to the new informalscience.org. We’re glad you’re here! This site is a resource for the informal science education (ISE) field, for people who are conducting or wishing to conduct, ISE activities, research or evaluation, or to collaborate with others who are. It is the culmination of several years of work by the Center for ...
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DATE: November 20th, 2015
CAISE is pleased to welcome Jared Nielsen as our new Online Producer. Jared joins us after spending several years developing The Hello World Program and Dototot, websites which engage children in learning computer science to kids through videos and interactive tutorials. He has also designed interactive science exhibits at the Natural History Museum of Los ...
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DATE: November 23rd, 2015
