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STEM Pathways: Building a STEM Learning Ecosystem

STEM Pathways is a collaboration between five Minnesota informal STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education organizations—The Bakken Museum, Bell Museum of Natural History, Minnesota Zoo, STARBASE Minnesota, and The Works Museum—working with Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) and advised by the Minnesota Department of Education. STEM Pathways (logo shown in Figure 1) aims to provide a deliberate and connected series of meaningful in-school and out-of-school STEM learning experiences to strengthen outcomes for students, build the foundation for a local ecosystem of STEM
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TEAM MEMBERS: Steven Walvig Beth Murphy Melanie Peters Abby Moore
resource research Media and Technology

Pathways in informal science learning: a practice-research brief

This briefing paper reports findings from the Youth Access & Equity in Informal Science Learning (ISL) project, a UK-US researcher-practitioner partnership funded by the Science Learning+ Phase 1 scheme. Our project focuses on young people aged 11-14 primarily from under-served and non-dominant communities and includes researchers and practitioners from a range of ISL settings, including designed spaces (eg museums, zoos), community-based (e.g. afterschool clubs) and everyday science spaces (e.g. science media).
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TEAM MEMBERS: Angela Calabrese Barton Lynn Dierking Day Greenberg Louise Archer emily dawson Amy Seakins
resource research Media and Technology

Equity in informal science learning: a practice-research brief

This briefing paper reports findings from the Youth Access & Equity in Informal Science Learning (ISL) project, a UK-US researcher-practitioner partnership funded by the Science Learning+ scheme. Our project focuses on young people aged 11-14 primarily from under-served and non-dominant communities and includes researchers and practitioners from a range of ISL settings: designed spaces (e.g. museums, zoos), community-based (e.g. after school clubs) and everyday science spaces (e.g. science media).
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TEAM MEMBERS: emily dawson Amy Seakins Louise Archer Angela Calabrese Barton Lynn Dierking
resource research Public Programs

It's All Happening at the Zoo: Children’s Environmental Learning after School

This study focuses on the combined role of zoos and an out-of-school-time program focused on environmental issues in influencing children’s relationship with and sense of responsibility toward animals and the environment.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Jason Douglas Cindi Katz
resource research Public Programs

Multicultural Inclusion at the New England Aquarium Audience Development Efforts and the Lake Victoria Exhibit

This paper discusses efforts at the New England Aquarium to attract multicultural audiences, with projects like the Lake Victoria exhibit. This NSF-funded, collaborative project, centered on Lake Victoria in East Africa, addresses the aquarium's lack of representation by racial minorities, specifically Boston's African-American community.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Jason J. Drebitko Gillian Nelson Visitor Studies Association