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  • A Full-scale Development Proposal -Informal Community Science Investigators (iCSI): Next Generation Engagement for Informal Science Institutions
    Date: 09/30/2012
    Resource Category!: Project Descriptions
    Informal Community Science Investigators (iCSI) creates a network of four geographically diverse informal science institutions working together on strategies to engage youth ages 10-13 through location based augmented reality (AR) games played on smartphones. These high-interest, kid-friendly games will be used by families visiting the ... »
  • An Affective Mobile Robot Educator with a Full-time Job
    Date: 01/01/1999
    Resource Category!: Peer-reviewed article
    Sage is a robot that has been installed at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History as a full-time autonomous member of the staff. Its goal is to provide educational content to museum visitors in order to augment their museum experience. This paper discusses all aspects of the related research and development. The functional obstacle avoidance ... »
  • Bridging the World of Work and Informal STEM Education
    Date: 10/01/2017
    Resource Category!: Project Descriptions
    To reach its full potential in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), the United States must continue to recruit, prepare and maintain a diverse STEM workforce. Much work has been done in this regard. Yet, underrepresentation in STEM fields persists and is especially pronounced for Hispanic STEM professionals. The Hispanic ... »
  • Call the Wild: Fostering Understanding of the Nature of Science
    Date: 09/15/2009
    Resource Category!: Project Descriptions
    The University of Florida, in collaboration with the Florida Museum of Natural History and Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences Extension, National 4-H, Association of Zoos and Aquariums, Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens, and the Institute for Learning Innovation will implement Call the Wild, a proof-of-concept project to investigate the ... »
  • Citizen Science Toolkit and Closing Discussion
    Date: 06/20/2007
    Resource Category!: Conference Proceedings
    This discussion was held during the final plenary session on day three of the Citizen Science Toolkit Conference at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in Ithaca, New York on June 20-23, 2007. Topics discussed include citizen science as a new field or discipline, the science role that citizen scientists play, next steps, issues to consider, suggestions ... »
  • Collaborative Research: RoboBees: A Convergence of Body, Brain and Colony
    Date: 09/01/2009
    Resource Category!: Project Descriptions
    This project entails the creation of a coordinated colony of robotic bees, RoboBees. Research topics are split between the body, brain, and colony. Each of these research areas is drawn together by the challenges of recreating various functionalities of natural bees. One such example is pollination: Bees coordinate to interact with complex natural ... »
  • Computational Thinking in Ecosystems Final Evaluation Report
    Date: 12/28/2018
    Resource Category!: Summative
    This report summarizes evaluative findings from Computational Thinking in Ecosystems project, and the resulting product, i.e., a functional draft of a game called “The Pack.” Evaluative efforts included gathering feedback from key stakeholders—including members of the design based research (DBR) team members at the New York Hall of Science (NYSCI ... »
  • Evaluation of Short-Term Impact of a High School Summer Science Program on Students' Perceived Knowledge and Skills
    Date: 12/01/2003
    Resource Category!: Peer-reviewed article
    Summer science programs held in university research facilities provide ideal opportunities for pre-college students to master new skills and renew, refresh, and enrich their interest in science. These types of programs have a positive impact on a student's understanding of the nature of science and scientific inquiry and can open a youngster's ... »
  • Exploring the effectiveness of using humor for communicating about science
    Date: 07/01/2019
    Resource Category!: Project Descriptions
    Increasingly, scientists and their institutions are engaging with lay audiences via media. The emergence of social media has allowed scientists to engage with publics in novel ways. Social networking sites have fundamentally changed the modern media environment and, subsequently, media consumption habits. When asked where they primarily go to ... »
  • From Data Collectors to Data Producers: Shifting Students’ Relationship to Data
    Date: 11/12/2019
    Resource Category!: Peer-reviewed article
    This paper contributes a theoretical framework informed by historical, philosophical and ethnographic studies of science practice to argue that data should be considered to be actively produced, rather than passively collected. We further argue that traditional school science laboratory investigations misconstrue the nature of data and overly ... »

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