Meet Kristin Bass, Alison Allen, Nicole Jarvis, Safa Asad, Claire Quimby, Camellia Sanford-Dolly, Maggie Deagon, Yesenia Garcia-Murillo, David Wilmore and Scott Burg at the annual National Institute of Health’s (NIH) SciEd 2026 meeting held virtually from Tuesday, September 29th through Thursday, October 1st. Kristin serves as a Co-Chair of the SciEd Conference, and Alison serves on the Organizing Committee as part of the Teacher Professional Development Strand.

Join Alison, Camellia, and Scott as they present at various sessions on Wednesday, September 30th. Alison and Camellia are co-presenting a breakout session, From Distance to Engagement: Building Strong Connections, Virtually In A Statewide Evaluation from 11:00-12:00pm EST. Scott is co-presenting a short talk, Multi-Institutional Partnerships: Best Practices For Collaborative STEM Programming from 11:00-12:00pm EST. Alison will be co-presenting a breakout session, Rethinking What Middle And High School Teachers Need From STEAM Professional Development: A Teacher-Centered Conversation From NH CREATES from 4:00-5:00pm EST.

REA staff have many years of experience with program evaluations for a wide variety of preK-12 STEM programs. In addition to the presentations listed above, REA contributed to 10 additional talks and 1 video showcase. Collectively, the presentations highlight our work in forming productive partnerships, designing studies, developing and validating instruments, analyzing qualitative and quantitative data, and reporting findings for program improvement and broader dissemination.

If you are attending the SciEd conference or are interested in hearing more, please reach out.

Meet Scott Burg at the Association of Children’s Museums (ACM) Interactivity Conference 2026 in San Diego, CA from April 21st through April 23rd.

Scott will be presenting a session called: Help Us Build It: A Field-Driven Toolkit for Supporting Children with Incarcerated Parents on Thursday, April 23rd from 1:15-2:30pm PST in Coral 2 with collaborators Adrienne Testa from Sciencecenter, Payton Friess from Kansas Children’s Discovery Center, and Heather Wood and Marina Shaunessy from Hands On Children’s Museum.

If you are attending ACM’s Interactivity 2026 or are interested in learning more about Scott’s presentation, please reach out.

Meet Julia Li at the 2026 National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Traineeship (NRT) Annual Meeting at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado on March 23rd and 24th. The meeting will be attended by the NRT community, which includes project PIs, co-PIs, project coordinators, evaluators, and graduate student trainees. If you are attending the meeting, look for Julia at the evaluator sessions. If you are interested in learning more about the NSF NRT program, please reach out.

Meet Nisaa Kirtman at the Center for Culturally Responsive Evaluation and Assessment (CREA) convening in Scottsdale, Arizona from March 1st-2nd. The theme of the convening is Cultivating Evaluation Leadership & Building Capacity Through a Time of Urgency. Please reach out if you would like more information about this event.

Camellia Sanford-Dolly will be attending the virtual 2026 National Science Foundation (NSF) Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program awardee meeting from February 24th – 26th. The theme for 2026 is Storytelling for Impact. This meeting is by invitation only, however please reach out to us if you would like more information on the AISL program.