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Overcoming Language Barriers in Academia: Machine Translation Tools and a Vision for a Multilingual Future

Date: 10/11/2022

Resource Category!: Peer-reviewed article

Having a central scientific language remains crucial for advancing and globally sharing science. Nevertheless, maintaining one dominant language also creates barriers to accessing scientific careers and knowledge. From an interdisciplinary perspective, we describe how, when, and why to make scientific literature more readily available in multiple ... »
Developing equitable practice with youth in makerspaces: Ideas and case studies from the Making Spaces project

Date: 10/04/2022

Resource Category!: Report

The Making Spaces project aims to contribute to a longer-term vision of a future where all UK makerspaces can be vehicles for social justice, offering spaces and resources for a wide range of communities to enhance and improve their lives, wellbeing and agency through STEM-rich making in ways that feel authentic, respectful and value the wisdom, ... »
S.H.E Can STEAM Summer Camp Program Evaluation for the National Air and Space Museum

Date: 10/03/2022

Resource Category!: Evaluation Reports

For a second year, Kera Collective measured the effectiveness of a summer camp designed by the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum to empower underrepresented youth to succeed in STEAM. Overview In the winter, spring, and summer of 2022, Kera Collective again worked with the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum to evaluate the ... »
Investigating the impact of youth's inductive exploration of local technologies featured in Indigenous stories on their engagement, self-efficacy, and persistence in STEM

Date: 10/01/2022

Resource Category!: Project Descriptions

This project provides opportunities for Indigenous youth to transform and be transformed by opportunities for STEAM innovation and knowledge building. This project will create opportunities outside of the classroom to invest in youths’ engagement, and interest, and self-efficacy in STEAM by supporting explorations in community settings that value ... »
Research to Understand and Inform the Impacts of Ambient and Designed Sound on Informal STEM Learning

Date: 10/01/2022

Resource Category!: Project Descriptions

This project is designed to support collaboration between informal STEM learning (ISL) researchers, designers, and educators with sound researchers and acoustic ecologists to jointly explore the role of auditory experiences—soundscapes—on learning. In informal STEM learning spaces, where conversation advances STEM learning and is a vital part of ... »
The Wild Center Climate Solutions Exhibition Summative Evaluation

Date: 09/30/2022

Resource Category!: Evaluation Reports

Overview In 2022, we worked with The Wild Center to evaluate its new IMLS-funded climate change exhibition, which used an innovative approach focused on presenting climate solutions through place-based examples and storytelling. Our evaluation came at a time when many museums were wrestling with how to effectively empower visitors to take climate ... »
Summative Evaluation of the Impact of Secrets of the Universe Giant Screen Film and Related Small Screen Videos on Middle School Students

Date: 09/27/2022

Resource Category!: Summative

With funding from the National Science Foundation, Secrets of the Universe (SOTU) is a multimedia project that has at its core a 40-minute 3D giant screen film directed by a collaboration of K2 Communications Inc., The Stephen Low Company, and University of California Davis Department of Physics. To support and extend the impact of the film for ... »
Because of Her Story Internship Program Evaluation

Date: 09/23/2022

Resource Category!: Summative

Overview In 2021, we worked with the Smithsonian Institution’s American Women’s History Initiative (AWHI) to design and implement a baseline study that would measure the long-term impacts of the Because of Her Story (BOHS) internship program on participants. The program is a cross-Smithsonian initiative that matches interns with museum projects ... »
Exploratory research and co-design to identify opportunities to support caregiver engagement in early STEM learning

Date: 09/15/2022

Resource Category!: Project Descriptions

This project addresses the urgent need for the development of equitable approaches to early childhood STEM education that honor the diverse cultural practices through which caregivers (such as parents, grandparents, and other adults in children’s lives) support young children’s learning. Recent studies suggest that both formal and informal ... »
Through Activating Rural Communities, Rural Teen Science Cafés Spark Interest in STEM

Date: 09/13/2022

Resource Category!: Summative

This document is the final evaluation report for the Teen Science Cafes for Advancing STEM in Rural Places project. A Teen Science Café is a free, regularly occurring event during the school year in which a local scientist, engineer, or STEM expert discusses their field experiences with the teen attendees. Ideally, a Teen Leader cohort, under the ... »

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