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Exploring the Broader Impacts of The Wild Center’s Longstanding Youth Climate Program in Rural Contexts: Summative Evaluation

The Wild Center has been running climate programs for over a decade and has embraced a culture of evaluation in its work to reflect on and improve the programs over time. This evaluation built on findings from prior evaluations to further explore the programs’ impact on rural youth and teachers, but also sought to understand broader contributions to the ecosystem of organizations doing climate resilience work across New York state and around the country.  
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TEAM MEMBERS: Katie Chandler Rachel Jackson Hannah Heller
resource evaluation Public Programs

Lessons Learned from and for the Field: Cultivating a National Network for Informal Science and Literacy through Leap into Science

This document summarizes lessons learned from implementing Leap into Science: Cultivating a National Network for Informal Science and Literacy (Leap into Science) from 2017-2023.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Sara Greller Karen Peterson Sheila James Erin Stafford Darryl Williams Emily Early Sharon Rollins Andrea Foster
resource evaluation Public Programs

Leap into Science: Cultivating a National Network for Informal Science and Literacy Summative Report

The following summative report describes overarching evaluation findings from the evaluation of Leap into Science, including future considerations for the Leap into Science program team (program team). The report aims to summarize takeaways from 2018-2023 and report on overall insights pertaining to the core evaluation questions of interest.
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resource evaluation K-12 Programs

Summative Analysis for the Bell Museum Planetarium Show and Corresponding Toolkit Activity

In fall 2019, the Bell Museum received funding via a NASA TEAM II grant to create Mars: The Ultimate Voyage, a full-dome planetarium show and accompanying hands-on activities that focus on the interdisciplinary roles that will be needed to send humans to Mars. This report from Catalyst Consulting Group presents the findings from the summative evaluation completed in March–May 2023.
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TEAM MEMBERS: VERONICA DEL BIANCO Maren Harris Karen Peterman
resource evaluation Public Programs

Citizen Science, Civics, and Resilient Communities (CSCRC) Summative Evaluation Report

This project builds off prior work conducted for the Science Center Public Forums project (NA15SEC008005) where eight forums were held at different sites across the US related to four climate hazards (drought, sea level rise, extreme heat, and extreme precipitation).
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TEAM MEMBERS: Sunewan Paneto Elizabeth Kollmann
resource evaluation Public Programs

Northern New York Maple Project Final Evaluation Report

With support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, The Wild Center (TWC) engaged Insight Evaluation Services (IES) to assess the impact of specific outreach activities of the Northern New York Maple Project between September 2013 and September 2015. Data for this two-year evaluation study were collected via in-depth telephone interviews conducted with a total of 25 participants, including 16 Tupper Tappers (Tupper Lake area residents who engaged in backyard tapping to provide sap for syrup production at the museum through the Community Maple Project), four local school teachers
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TEAM MEMBERS: Kirsten Buchner