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This poster was presented at the 2021 NSF AISL Awardee Meeting. Programming includes Neighborhood Walks led by teams of scientists/engineers and artists Community Workshops, Local Artist Projects, and Youth Mentorship focused on neighborhood and citywide water issues Intergenerational participation, from seniors and adult learners to young adults, teens, and middle schoolers
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resource research Public Programs
This poster was presented at the 2021 NSF AISL Awardee Meeting. Since 2006, the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (MagLab) through the Center for Integrating Research and Learning (CIRL) has offered a SciGirls Summer Camp to introduce middle school girls to various fields of science. Code: SciGirls was created in 2017 to increase the engagement in computer science studies and career paths for girls. This consistent commitment to girls in STEM led the SciGirls creators at Twin Cities Public Television (TPT) to invite CIRL to be a partner with them. In the summer of 2021, CIRL & TPT
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TEAM MEMBERS: Carlos Villa Rita Karl Brooke Hobbes A. Troy Roxanne Hughes
resource research Public Programs
This poster was presented at the 2021 NSF AISL Awardee Meeting. The project scales up an award-winning coaching model: Informal educators come together in small groups to share videos of their own interactions with youth A coach helps them share feedback based on their use of key skills (e.g. how to ask youth purposeful questions).
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TEAM MEMBERS: Sue Allen Jessica Donner
resource research Media and Technology
This poster was presented at the 2021 NSF AISL Awardee Meeting. This project's research questions include: How and to what extent do Brains On!’s coronavirus-based episodes help children and their families understand and talk about science-related pandemic topics? What kind of conversations are sparked by these episodes? What kinds of worries and questions do Brains On! listeners have about coronavirus and related aspects of the pandemic? How do children’s worries and questions change over the course of the pandemic? What resources do caregivers need to answer children’s questions
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TEAM MEMBERS: Amy Grack Nelson
resource research Exhibitions
This poster was presented at the 2021 NSF AISL Awardee Meeting. What do you think? How do you connect with youth audiences? What assumptions do you have about how identity relates to exhibit engagement? How do factors that shape your identity impact your life? Has this shifted over time?
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resource research Public Programs
Access & opportunity in STEM remain limited for youth from historically underrepresented backgrounds in the US & UK. We present findings grounded in Participatory Ethnographies into STEM pathways, highlighting how youth participate in ISL across time and settings in equitable and transformative ways, and practices that ISL practitioners engage in towards supporting pathway authoring. We take a pathways lens to highlight the multiple directions one may take through a particular ecology towards a wide range of outcomes beyond the STEM career, such as STEM agency and identities. Our study
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TEAM MEMBERS: Angela Calabrese Barton Louise Archer emily dawson Lynn Dierking Day Greenberg Sperla Godec Won Jung Kim Sinead Brien ReAnna Roby Uma Patel Ada Mau
resource research Public Programs
This poster was presented at the 2021 NSF AISL Awardee Meeting. Our overarching goal is to better understand the particulars of how and why youth co-make in life-based and STEM-rich ways with families and communities, such that we can better infrastructure community-based maker programs in support of youth learning and well-being.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Edna Tan Angela Calabrese Barton Day Greenberg Ti’Era Worsley Carmen Turner Grace Thompson Diya Abdo
resource research Media and Technology
The Polar Literacy (PL) project explores the development and implementation of Out of School Time (OST) learning opportunities focused on polar literacy concepts and authentic data with middle school aged youth. This poster was presented at the 2021 NSF AISL Awardee Meeting.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Janice McDonnell Jason Cervenec
resource research Exhibitions
This project engages families in engineering design challenges through a sustainability and biomimicry lens. Families advance their engineering proficiencies while learning from nature to create a livable future. This poster was presented at the 2021 NSF AISL Awardee Meeting.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Marcie Benne Veronika Nunez
resource research Media and Technology
This poster was presented at the 2021 NSF AISL Awardee Meeting. Dinosaurs of Antarctica is a giant screen film and outreach project that documents the work of NSF-funded researchers on expeditions to Shackleton Glacier during the 2017-2018 field season. This immersive film and companion television special will bring the past to life and engage the public, and particularly students in middle grades (6-9), with polar science through appealing, entertaining media experiences and informal learning programs. The film serves as a companion for the synonymous Antarctic Dinosaurs museum exhibition
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TEAM MEMBERS: Deborah Raksany Andy Wood Karen Elinich
resource research Media and Technology
This poster was presented at the 2021 NSF AISL Awardee Meeting. Persons who are deaf or hard of hearing are underrepresented in the STEM workforce. A key factor is lack of awareness of STEM careers or of examples of STEM professionals. SWS has developed 8 video stories for viewing at home or while attending a boys and girls club. Evaluation will provide new knowledge about design, use, and potential impact of the stories on our audience’s interest in pursuing STEM and possibly a STEM career.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Judy Vesel
resource research Public Programs
This poster was presented at the 2021 NSF AISL Awardee Meeting. The archaeology after-school program, geared towards rural middle school students, explores the ability to teach STEM through archaeology. The multidisciplinary nature of archaeology makes it a useful vehicle for teaching a variety of STEM disciplines (e.g., biology, geology, ecology, zoology, physics, chemistry, mathematics, etc.). Its compatibility with hands-on activities, deep thinking skills, and scientific reasoning matches STEM learning goals.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Laurie Miroff Amber Simpson Nina Versaggi Lynda Carroll Luann Kida