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Looking for Girl-focused STEM programs at cultural institutions (museums, science centers, aquaria, zoos, botanical gardens)

  • 1.  Looking for Girl-focused STEM programs at cultural institutions (museums, science centers, aquaria, zoos, botanical gardens)

    Posted 04-04-2019 02:58 PM

    Hello!

    The Intrepid Museum Sea, Air and Space Museum, the Education Development Center, and the National Girls Collaborative Project are collaborating on the STEM Effect project, supported by the National Science Foundation. The goal of this project is to develop a research and action agenda for better understanding the long-term impacts of STEM programs for middle- and high-school age girls offered by cultural organizations (museums, science centers, aquaria, botanical gardens, or zoos). To help us develop the action agenda, we are currently gathering information from key stakeholder groups to help ensure that the action agenda is informed by their perspectives and grounded in education practice.

     

    If your institution is running a girl-focused STEM program we'd love to hear more about it!

    Email STEMeffect4girls@gmail.com and tell us who you are, the name of your program and a description or the web link where we can find out more. We'd love it if you could share examples of existing logic models/evaluation approaches.

     

       JOIN THE CONVERSATION!

    Join us for a Twitter chat on Wednesday, April 24th at 2pm ET to discuss the opportunities, challenges, and practices for designing informal STEM programs for middle and high-school aged girls at cultural organizations.

    The hash tag will be #STEMEffect RSVP for Chat HERE or on Facebook

    Follow us on:

      Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheSTEMEffect/

     Twitter: @STEMEffectGirls 

      Web: https://sites.google.com/view/thestemeffect/home

               

     

    This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. #1811155 (Division of Research on Learning).

    Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

     

     

    Lynda Kennedy, MS Ed, PhD

    Vice President, Education & Evaluation

    Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum

    646-381-5160

     

    Honor our Heroes, Educate the Public, Inspire our Youth

     

     

     

     

     

    AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo, Baltimore, May 16-19, 2024, click to learn more


  • 2.  RE: Looking for Girl-focused STEM programs at cultural institutions (museums, science centers, aquaria, zoos, botanical gardens)

    Posted 04-05-2019 10:13 AM
    Edited by Shanti Sanchez 04-05-2019 10:13 AM
    The Vero Beach Museum of Art works with the local Environmental Learning Center (ELC) to bring a group of middle-school girls for a STEAM experience in the summer. The ELC does this each year as part of a mentorship program. As a visual art institution, the emphasis of our part in that program is to offer gallery tours of works that connect with STEM, specifically nature and environmental themes. The participating girls receive an interactive gallery tour and do related journaling and/or sketching and creating in response to the works they view and connecting it to other learning and experiences they receive in the program. 

    I am sharing your information with that program's coordinator since it sounds quite relevant!

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    Shanti Sanchez
    School, Youth and Community Programs Manager
    Vero Beach Museum of Art
    Vero Beach, FL

    Original Message:
    Sent: 04-04-2019 02:42 PM
    From: Lynda Kennedy
    Subject: Looking for Girl-focused STEM programs at cultural institutions (museums, science centers, aquaria, zoos, botanical gardens)

    Hello!

    The Intrepid Museum Sea, Air and Space Museum, the Education Development Center, and the National Girls Collaborative Project are collaborating on the STEM Effect project, supported by the National Science Foundation. The goal of this project is to develop a research and action agenda for better understanding the long-term impacts of STEM programs for middle- and high-school age girls offered by cultural organizations (museums, science centers, aquaria, botanical gardens, or zoos). To help us develop the action agenda, we are currently gathering information from key stakeholder groups to help ensure that the action agenda is informed by their perspectives and grounded in education practice.

     

    If your institution is running a girl-focused STEM program we'd love to hear more about it!

    Email STEMeffect4girls@gmail.com and tell us who you are, the name of your program and a description or the web link where we can find out more. We'd love it if you could share examples of existing logic models/evaluation approaches.

     

       JOIN THE CONVERSATION!

    Join us for a Twitter chat on Wednesday, April 24th at 2pm ET to discuss the opportunities, challenges, and practices for designing informal STEM programs for middle and high-school aged girls at cultural organizations.

    The hash tag will be #STEMEffect RSVP for Chat HERE or on Facebook

    Follow us on:

      Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheSTEMEffect/

     Twitter: @STEMEffectGirls 

      Web: https://sites.google.com/view/thestemeffect/home

               

     

    This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. #1811155 (Division of Research on Learning).

    Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

     

     

    Lynda Kennedy, MS Ed, PhD

    Vice President, Education & Evaluation

    Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum

    646-381-5160

     

    Honor our Heroes, Educate the Public, Inspire our Youth

     

     

     

     

     

    AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo, Baltimore, May 16-19, 2024, click to learn more