Meet Alex Gurn and Kristin Bass at the 2021 NIH SciEd Virtual Conference from May 24th-27th.

Kristin, served as a member of the SciEd Conference Organizing Committee and is a Strand Leader in the Science Teaching and Learning strand. As part of her leadership role she will be hosting an Informal Networking Session on Tuesday, May 25th at 4pm EST for the Science Teaching and Learning Strand. In addition, she will be facilitating two breakout session, the first on research design, ‘Strategies for Working with Research Comparison Groups‘ on Wednesday, May 26th at 12pm EST and the second on disseminating and communicating research findings, Avoid the Void – How to Effectively Disseminate Your Findings and Communicate with Your Audience on Thursday, May 27th at 4pm EST.

Alex will be presenting, ‘Strategies to Leverage the Expertise of Your Advisory Board,’ with STEM Escape Room project team members from the University of California Berkeley’s Museum of Paleontology on Wednesday, May 26th at 3pm EST. This session will explore project design considerations, team selection, engagement strategies, collaborative practices, and other factors that can enable or inhibit the effectiveness of advisory members to constructively inform the initiative.

If you are attending or would like more information on the NIH SciEd Conference, please contact us.

Meet REA team members at the 2021 STEM for All Video Showcase from May 11th-18th. This year’s theme is COVID, Equity, and Social Justice and will showcase 287 federally funded projects related to improving STEM and computer science education in K-12, higher ed, and in informal environments.

Claire Quimby and Jennifer Borland are presenting alongside the Bird Cam Labs team members from Cornell’s Lab of Ornithology as part a video titled “Bird Cams Lab: Democratizing Science Collaboration.”

Alex Gurn and Kristin Bass are presenting with Biotech Partners as part of a video titled “Conducting STEM Industry Internships Amid the Pandemic.”

If you are attending or would like more information on the STEM for All Video Showcase, don’t hesitate to reach out.

Camellia Sanford-Dolly will be attending the Citizen Science Association’s CitSciVirtual: Local, Global, Connected event in May 2021. A poster Camellia collaborated on entitled, “Macroinvertebrates.org: A Digital Tool for Supporting Identification Activities During Water Quality Biomonitoring Trainings” will be available to attendees from May 3rd-May 27th. Camellia will also be co-facilitating a two-part workshop, “Program Evaluation 101: Evaluation Basics and Logic Models”, on Tuesday, May 4th and Tuesday, May 11th from 1:30-3:00PM ET. Finally, Camellia will be co-facilitating a workshop, “‘Ask Me Anything’ Research and Evaluation Working Group: Surveys, Focus Groups, and Interviews” on Monday, May 17th from 3:00-4:30PM ET. If you are attending CitSciVirtual or interested in learning more about Camellia’s workshops, please reach out.

Join Scott Burg as he presents at the Midwestern Museum Association webinar, Audience Engagement: Preparing for the Virtual Long Game on Monday, April 26th at 3:30 CST. If you are attending or want more information on this webinar, don’t hesitate to reach out.

Meet us at the 2021 American Educational Research Association (AERA) conference held virtually from April 8th-12th.

On Saturday, April 10th from 11:30-12:30 PST, Scott Burg and Alex Gurn will be presenting their paper titled The Arts as a Catalyst for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Education: Connecting Arts Integration to Social Justice. The paper presents evidence from two long-term case studies to explore the role and impact of integrating visual, musical and creative arts in youth learning and curriculum both in and out school.

Dr. Gurn with the support of Kristin Bass, Alison Allen, and Nicole Jarvis, will be presenting a roundtable discussion on Saturday, April 10th, 1:10-2:40 PST, titled Exploring Multiple Stakeholder Experiences and Impacts to Develop a Framework for Bioscience Industry Internships with Underrepresented Youth. This paper explores the learning conditions and outcomes of a nonprofit organization working at the intersections of bioscience/biotechnology workforce education in collaboration with public high schools and professional experts and organizations in a range of STEM industries.

Jennifer Borland and Adam Moylan will be presenting a paper session on the Effect of Microcredential Courses on Teacher Pedagogical Content Knowledge in Mathematics on Saturday, April 10th, 1:10-2:40 PST. The paper explores research conducted on the effectiveness of an online, self-paced, competency-based education program of micro-credentials that are designed for teachers working in underserved rural communities.

If you are attending the meeting or would like more information on these sessions, don’t hesitate to reach out.