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This is a handout from the session "Unique Approaches to Community Engagement – Challenges, Successes, Lessons Learned" at the 2014 ASTC Conference held in Raleigh, NC. The handout includes presentation slides and the central questions discussed by each session contributor.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Dale McCreedy Gretchen Walker Patricia Ward Blake Wigdahl Jennifer Zoffel
resource research Public Programs
This is a handout from the session "Introducing your preschool audiences to science and astronomy" at the 2014 ASTC Conference held in Raleigh, NC. The session discussed how the My Sky Tonight project supports informal science educators in engaging young children in the practices of science through astronomy.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Julia Plummer
resource research Public Programs
This is a handout from the session "High Expectations, High Support: Effective professional development strategies for teens" at the 2014 ASTC Conference held in Raleigh, NC. It includes slides from the presentation which discuss how museums and informal institutions can provide professional development for teenagers.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Lucy Green Don Wittrock Kathy Fuller Liz Witlinger Josh Kemper Joy Delyria
resource research Public Programs
This is a handout from the session "Increasing Audience Diversity" at the 2014 ASTC Conference held in Raleigh, NC. The session was broken down into groups by audience age. The handout provides notes for engaging university students and middle and high school aged children.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Amanda Paige
resource research Media and Technology
This is a handout from the session "20+ Trending Tech Tools That Make Work Easier, You Smarter" at the 2014 ASTC Conference held in Raleigh, NC. It includes a link to the slides and more information about the tools discussed in the session.
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resource research Professional Development, Conferences, and Networks
This is a handout from the session "How We Learned from Exhibits That SUCK!" at the 2014 ASTC Conference held in Raleigh, NC. The slides describe what aspects of an exhibit make it successful or make it suck.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Dennis Bateman Victoria Coats Chad Gehring Roger Topp Harry White Adam Zuckerman
resource research Public Programs
This is a handout from the session "Dream, Design, Fab! Engaging Youth With Digital Fabrication" at the 2014 ASTC Conference held in Raleigh, NC. The session described the Fab Lab program at the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Matt Chalker Dan Meyer Rabiah Mayas
resource research Professional Development, Conferences, and Networks
This is a handout from the session "Evaluation Capacity Building: Current initiatives and future directions" at the 2014 ASTC Conference held in Raleigh, NC. The handout provides a brief overview of five different projects that enhance evaluation capacity for the field.
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resource research Public Programs
This is a handout from the session "The CEO Debate 2: Museum leaders consider current issues" at the 2014 ASTC Conference held in Raleigh, NC. The handout presents a list of current questions and trends that were posed to museum CEOs to discuss during the session.
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TEAM MEMBERS: John Jacobsen Mac West
resource research Public Programs
This is a handout from the session "Museums 3.0: Implementing programs/exhibits which are a community resource" at the 2014 ASTC Conference held in Raleigh, NC. This handout includes slides from each of the presenters.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Lath Carlson Priya Mohabir Kristin Leigh Devon Hamilton
resource research Professional Development, Conferences, and Networks
This is a handout from the session "Design/Build or Design/Bid/Build…that is the question!" at the 2014 ASTC Conference held in Raleigh, NC. The handout includes notes from the session that outline risks, opportunities, and solutions regarding exhibit design.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Bill Booth Penny Jennings Greg Belew Tony Zodrow Barbara Punt Steve Wiersema Tamara Schwarz
resource research Public Programs
This is a handout from the session "Knowing your Community: To Be More Interesting, Be More Interested" at the 2014 ASTC Conference held in Raleigh, NC. It provides a set of three questions for museum professionals to ask members of their community.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Bill Booth