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 Workforceon 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.

Meet Us in March

Camellia Sanford-Dolly and Jennifer Borland will be attending the National Afterschool Association’s convention in Orlando, FL from March 19th-22nd. Camellia and Jennifer will be presenting a workshop “Measuring and Communicating Programs’ Impacts on Children’s Learning and Engagement” with Bryce Becker (Twin Cities Public Television) on Tuesday, March 21st from 3:15-4:15PM in Lafayette 1 at the Gaylord Palms Resort and Convention Center.

Meet Us in February

REA colleagues are excited to be gathering together under one roof for the first time since becoming a cooperative. We will be meeting in Denver, CO to do some professional development, team building, and socializing! Stay tuned for some fun updates on our gathering.

Meet Us in November and December

Alison Allen will be attending the NSF Innovative Technologies Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) 2022 PI meeting from November 1st to 3rd. This gathering is by invite only.

Nissa Kirtman and Scott Burg will be attending the American Evaluation Association‘s (AEA) annual conference at the Hyatt Regency in New Orleans, LA from November 7th-12th. Nisaa and Scott will be presenting a poster “Proposal Development with Intention: Culturally-Responsive & Equitable Evaluation (CREE) and their Role in Strengthening Collaborative Evaluator and Stakeholder Partnerships” with partners Mehri Fadavi (Jackson State University), Jo Anne Fordham (Jackson State University), Michelle Wick (Smith College), Julie Brigham-Grette (University of Massachusetts) on Wednesday, November 9th from 6:30-8:30pm EST.

Alison Allen will be attending the 4th Annual International Astronomy Union (IAU) SHAW virtual meeting from November 15th-17th. She will be presenting a poster “Representations of Astronomy in Children’s Storybooks” with Dr. Julia Plummer (Pennsylvania State University). Poster presentations will take place online on Tuesday, November 15th at 12pm EST, Wednesday, November 16th at 6:30am EST, and November 17th at 7:30am EST.

Meet Claire Quimby, Fatima CarsonJennifer Borland, and Julia Li at the 2022 Indiana Evaluator Association (IEA) Annual Meeting and 20th Anniversary Celebration from 3:30-5:30pm EST on December 2nd at the Athenaeum in Indianapolis, IN. Click here for more information on the event.