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Handout - Sustaining Current Science Experiences in Science Centers

This is a handout from the session "Sustaining Current Science Experiences in Science Centers" at the 2014 ASTC Conference held in Raleigh, NC. It contains an overview of the session, which included discussion of embedded partnerships, episodic real science activities, and sustainability strategies.
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TEAM MEMBERS: David Chesebrough
resource research Public Programs

Handout - Making Space for Innovation: Sampling of making and tinkering

This is a handout from the session "Making Space for Innovation: Sampling of Making and Tinkering" at the 2014 ASTC Conference held in Raleigh, NC. The session provided an overview of different makerspaces and tinkering programs, including the goals, opportunities, and challenges of the making movement.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Monika Mayer
resource research Public Programs

Handout - NASA in the Community: Diverse solutions to engaging families/educators

This is a handout from the session "NASA in the Community: Diverse solutions to engaging families/educators" at the 2014 ASTC Conference held in Raleigh, NC. It includes presentation slides and related reference materials about NASA-funded informal education projects.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Leslie Lowes Anita Sohus Mike Shanahan
resource research Public Programs

Handout - Unique Approaches to Community Engagement: Challenges, Successes, Lessons Learned

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

Handout - Introducing your preschool audiences to science and astronomy

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

Handout - High Expectations, High Support: Effective professional development strategies for teens

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
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Handout - Increasing Audience Diversity

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

ASTC 2014: 20+ Trending Tech Tools

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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TEAM MEMBERS: Troy Livingston Kate Tinworth
resource research Professional Development, Conferences, and Networks

Handout - How We Learned from Exhibits That SUCK!

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

Handout - Dream, Design, Fab! Engaging Youth With Digital Fabrication

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

Handout - Evaluation Capacity Building: Current initiatives and future directions

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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TEAM MEMBERS: Chris Cardiel Scott Pattison Kirsten Ellenbogen Amy Grack Nelson Christine Reich
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Handout - ASTC CEOs Consider Current Ideas

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