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Meet Us in October

Nisaa Kirtman will be attending and presenting at the 7th Annual CREA (Center for Culturally Responsive Evaluation & Assessment) Conference in Chicago, IL from October 3rd-6th. Nisaa will be presenting a session titled “A Tool for Reflective Practice Towards Equity and Accountability” with Cecilia Garibay of the Garibay Group. The session will present a tool and action-research work developed to support research and evaluation teams in reflective practice, decision-making, accountability toward more culturally-responsive and equitable practices, and improved community-level engagement and relationship with communities (particularly historically marginalized populations). If you are attending the CREA Conference or would like more information about the conference of Nisaa’s presentation, please reach out.

Join Scott Burg, Camellia Sanford-Dolly, and Anna Jennerjohn from October 17th-20th at the virtual NAAEE Conference. The theme of the conference is “Together We Thrive.” Along with Heather Toomey-Zimmerman, Susan Land, and Lucy McClain, our team at REA will present an on-demand pre-recorded session entitled, “Engaging Rural Audiences: Enhancing Environmental Learning Experiences Through Technology.” The session includes an interview study with environmental educators, seeking to understand barriers to and strategies for engaging rural and BIPOC visitors with their sites, programming, and technology, and an observational study examining family conversations and engagement using mobile augmented reality at a rural nature center.

Camellia Sanford-Dolly, Jennifer Borland, and Anna Jennerjohn, along with our colleagues at Twin Cities Public Television, have pre-recorded a video showcase session, “Lessons Learned During the Iterative Development of a National Transmedia Family Program,” for the 2023 Connected Learning Summit, a virtual conference taking place from October 26th-28th. Camellia will be available to discuss the video on Thursday, October 26th from 330-430pm EST during the online conference meet-up.

Scott Burg will be attending the 2023 National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Trainee (NRT) program’s annual meeting in Tempe, AZ on October 29th-31st. If you plan on attending the meeting or would like more information on the NRT program, don’t hesitate to reach out.

Meet Us in July and August

Join Scott Burg, Nicole Jarvis, and Maggie Deagon at the virtual SciPEP2023 Conference on July 25th and 26th from 8am-1pm PDT / 11am-4pm EDT each day. The theme of the conference is “New Insights for Communicating Basic Science” where science communication scholars, practitioners, and trainers are coming together to discuss new insights and think about new ideas and opportunities for sharing science research and practice with others. Registration for the event is free and open to all!

Meet Anna Jennerjohn at the virtual Nature Start Alliance conference, a branch of the North American Association for the Environmental Education (NAAEE), from Monday, July 24th through Thursday, July 26th. Anna will be presenting “What’s the Word? Language with Emergent Multilinguals Outdoors” on Thursday at 1pm EDT/10am PDT.

Meet Us in May

Meet Alex Gurn in the AERA Virtual i-Presentation Gallery on May 4th and 5th. Alex will be sharing his poster “Building Inroads to the Bioscience Industry Through Internships With Students Underrepresented in the STEM Workforce” on Thursday, May 4th from 10am-12pm PST and on Friday, May 5th from 10am-11am PST. Join Alex to learn about workforce development strategies used to motivate and support high school students from historically excluded populations to become aware of, interested in, and prepared for STEM career pathways.

 

Meet Alison Allen and Kristin Bass at the 2023 SciEd Conference in Washington, DC from May 30th to June 2nd 2023.

Meet Us in April

Adam Moylan, Alison Allen, and Anna Jennerjohn will be attending the Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA) National Professional Development 2023 Directors Meeting in Washington, DC on April 10th-13th. If you attending the meeting or would like more information on the NPD program, don’t hesitate to reach out.

Camellia Sanford-Dolly will be attending the American Educational Research Association‘s annual conference in Chicago, IL on April 13th & 14th. Camellia will be presenting a poster, “Creating Consequential Media: Findings From a National Needs Assessment With Informal Educators and Caregivers” with Bryce Becker (Twin Cities Public Television) on Friday, April 14th from 2:50-4:20PM CST in the East Tower, Exhibit Level, Riverside West Exhibition Hall at the Hyatt Regency Chicago.

Alison Allen will be attending the 96th annual NARST international conference in Chicago, IL on April 18th-21st. She will be presenting a poster, Representations of Astronomy in Children’s Picture Books, with Julia Plummer (Penn State University) on Thursday, April 20th from 3:50-4:35pm CST in the Grand Ballroom (L2) at the Hilton Chicago.

Jen Borland and Julia Li will be presenting “Creative Ways to Measure & Communicate Your Program’s Impact” on April 25th at the Indiana Summit on Out-of-School-Learning from 9:45-11 AM EST at the Embassy Suites by Hilton Conference Center in Noblesville, IN. Click here to learn more about the conference: https://lnkd.in/g5FtTsiw

Scott Burg will be attending the upcoming Association of Children’s Museum Interactivity Annual Conference in St. Louis, Missouri on April 26-28, 2023. On Thursday, April 26 at 2:00pm CST, Scott will be presenting preliminary research findings from an IMLS-supported grant on parent and caregiver preferences for virtual programming from children’s museums. Co-presenters include Jennifer Rehkamp, ACM’s Director of Field Service and Research, and Shaun Fields and John Voiklis from Knology.