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Engineering in Early Childhood: Describing Family-Level Interest Development Systems

In this paper, we summarize the results of the two-year, National Science Foundation-funded Head Start on Engineering (HSE) project, designed to study and support engineering-related interest development for preschool children and their families from low-income backgrounds participating in Head Start. Low-income communities face ongoing barriers to accessing STEM learning resources and pursuing STEM-related careers. Quality family interventions in early childhood are a critical approach to addressing these barriers and have been shown to have long-term, positive impacts on families well beyond
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TEAM MEMBERS: Scott Pattison Shannon Weiss Smirla Ramos-Montañez Ivel Gontan Gina Navoa Svarovsky eric greenwald Marcie Benne Veronika Núñez Cynthia Smith
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The Legacy of YouthAlive!: Transformative Youth Programs Continue to Thrive in Science Centers

This report discusses the legacy and impact of YouthALIVE! (Youth Achievement through Learning, Involvement, Volunteering, and Employment), an initiative in the 1990s of the Association of Science-Technology Centers with support from the DeWitt-Wallace Reader’s Digest Fund to enable museums and science centers to establish programs for youth from underserved populations. YouthALIVE! programs are characterized by intensive, multi-year engagement in the life of the institution, including a wide variety of opportunities for science teaching, learning, and mentoring, and conducting scientific
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TEAM MEMBERS: Cary Sneider Meg Burke
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Out-of-School Time STEM: Building Experience, Building Bridges

A June 2010 report from the Exploratorium's Learning and Youth Research and Evaluation Center (LYREC) highlights trends, questions, and findings related to out-of-school-time science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (OST STEM). Based on an October 2009 meeting, the report aims "to inform the work of OST educators, researchers, and funders." The report notes that "out-of-school-time programs such as summer camps,afterschool programs and Saturday classes provide students with important opportunities to: (1) spark, sustain, and deepen their interest in science, technology, engineering
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TEAM MEMBERS: Bronwyn Bevan Vera Michalchik Ruchi Bhanot Noah Rauch Julie Remold Rob Semper Patrick Shields
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Working Together: Museums and Community Partners

PISEC is a four-museum partnership focused on education - the Academy of Natural Sciences, the Franklin Institute Science Museum, the New Jersey State Aquarium, and the Philadelphia Zoo. One of PISEC's Initiatives, Community Connections, forged a long-term relationship between museums and urban community organizations to help families learn more about the science education resources available to them in and around their neighborhoods. This document explores the Community Connections initiative, presenting insights and next steps related to the program.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Philadelphia-Camden Informal Science Education Collaborative (PISEC) Kathleen Wagner Minda Borun Jean Ferraro Julie Johnson