California Association of Museums Mini Conference

Meet Scott Burg at the California Association of Museums (CAM) Mini Conference on March 24, 2022 at the Cal Academy of Science in San Francisco. Scott will be presenting, Digital Dilemma for Children’s Museums: Is Virtual Programming Impactful or Harmful? with Carol Tang, Executive Director, Children’s Creativity Museum in San Francisco, CA.

KQED: Cracking the Code

Cracking the Code is a recently completed three year Advancing Informal Science Learning (AISL) innovations research project funded by NSF, between KQED, Texas Tech and Yale universities. This project represents one of the largest public investments in science communication and media research practitioner partnerships (RPPs). Rockman et al Cooperative conducted a rigorous external process evaluation […]

American Evaluation Association Virtual Experience

Nisaa Kirtman will be presenting at the 2021 American Evaluation Association Virtual Experience from November 8th-12th. Nisaa will be presenting on the topic “Who are we? In whose name do we do our work?” with Vidhya Shanker and Elizabeth Taylor-Schiro as part of AEA’s recently-formed Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Working Group on November 9th […]

AISL Review Criteria: What We Learned From Last Year

Through the Advancing Informal STEM Learning program (AISL), the National Science Foundation (NSF) has supported research and development in innovative STEM media, out-of-school programs, museum exhibits, and community-driven citizen science projects. Since the company’s inception, Rockman et al has served as a researcher or third party evaluator on numerous NSF informal STEM programs. In our […]

2021 AISL PI Meeting

Jennifer Borland and Alex Gurn will be attending the virtual National Science Foundation Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) PI meeting from October 19th-21st. The 2021 AISL PI meeting is by invitation only. Jennifer will be co-facilitating the Critical Conversations Roundtable on Tuesday and Wednesday (October 19th & 20th) from 1:30-2:15pm EST. Alex will be sharing […]