Join Nisaa Kirtman as she presents a virtually workshop on Friday, July 19th at the Indiana Evaluation Association (IEA). Nisaa will be presenting about culturally responsive evaluation approaches from 12-2p EST. Click here for more information and to register for the workshop.

Meet Kara Fedje at the 20th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (ICQI) gathering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign from Tuesday, May 14th through Saturday, May 17th. Kara will be presenting a talk during the Spotlighted Morning Session at 12pm CST on Friday, May 17th on “Access for All: Digital Games and the right to play them.”

Meet Kristin Bass, Alison Allen, Camellia Sanford-Dolly, Maggie Deagon, and Kara Fedje at the annual National Institute of Health’s (NIH) SciEd 2024 meeting held in Salt Lake City, UT from Tuesday, May 28th through Friday, May 31st. Kristin serves as a Co-Chair of the SciEd Conference, and Alison serves on the Organizing Committee as part of the Research and Evaluation Strand.

If you are attending any of these conferences or are interested in hearing more, please reach out.

Meet Scott Burg at the Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) 4th Conference on Evaluating Environment and Development held in Washington, DC on March 5th through 7th. If you plan on attending the conference or would like more information, don’t hesitate to reach out.

Camellia Sanford-Dolly will be attending the National Afterschool Association Convention at the Hyatt Regency in Houston, TX from March 17th through 20th. Camellia will be presenting a workshop, “Integrating Self-Regulation Strategies for Children in Afterschool Spaces” from 8-9am CST and a session titled, “Designing Meaningful Programming for Families Using a Responsive, Research-Informed Approach” from 10-11am CST on March 19th. If you are attending the NAA conference or are interested in hearing more about our work, please reach out.

Camellia Sanford-Dolly will be a virtual panelist in the session, “Evaluation and Assessment: Methods and Preliminary Results,” during the NSF BIO-RETS PI meeting on Thursday, January 25th at 1:30PM EST. This meeting is by inviation only. If you would like to learn more about the NSF BIO-RETS funding, please reach out.

Meet Anna Jennerjohn at the North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE) Natural Start webinar on Tuesday, January 30th at 3pm EST. Anna will be presenting as part of a panel discussion on the topic: Multiple Languages in Nature-Based Classrooms. Registration for the webinar is free and recordings will be sent to all registrants.

Meet Scott Burg at the CRAFT Research Collaboration Network intervening on Saturday, February 10th and 11th in San Francisco, CA. The CRAFT’s 2024 convening will bring networks together to catalyze change-making collaborations and reshape research and practice partnerships through cross-pollination and collaboration to advance critical community-based impact in making and STEM programs.

Meet Anna Jennerjohn at the 73rd Annual Literacy Research Association Conference from November 29th to December 1st at the Hilton Atlanta in Atlanta, GA. The conference theme for 2023 is Interrogating Hierarchies: Building a Humanitarian Literacy Research Architecture that Binds.

Scott Burg will be attending the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP28 UAE, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The global conference runs from November 28th through December 12th. Scott will be attending the conference from December 7th-12th as part of the Climate Leaders Academy program at Michigan Technology University.

Camellia Sanford-Dolly, Kristin Bass, and Nicole Jarvis will be attending the 2023 National Science Foundation (NSF) Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program awardee meeting at the Hilton Arlington National Landing in Arlington, VA from December 6th to December 8th. The theme for 2023 is REVISING the Conversation on Equity in ISE. This meeting is by invitation only, however please reach out to us if you would like more information on the AISL program.