by Kim Kiesewetter | Nov 12, 2019 | General News
Article: Celebrating STEM in Rural Communities: A Model for an Inclusive Science and Engineering Festival What do we know? Research shows that opportunities for informal science learning are limited in rural communities when compared to urban ones.The Genome Science...
by Kim Kiesewetter | Oct 30, 2019 | General News
In the coming weeks, EvalFest will be doing a series of “Science Festival Snippets” where we share bite-sized summaries from science festival literature… even more exciting, some of this literature was written by our very own EvalFest team members!...
by Kim Kiesewetter | Aug 27, 2019 | Conference, General News
EvalFest (EF) partners Karen Peterman, Jane Robertson, and Kim Kiesewetter headed to the Motor City in July for the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Visitor Studies Association (VSA) where they participated in two different sessions as presenters. The VSA conference was...
by Karen Peterman | Apr 12, 2019 | General News
In 2017 the EvalFest team was invited to attend a meeting hosted by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences to help inform their Public Face of Science Initiative . The meeting was attended by a blend of researchers from science communication and informal STEM...
by evalfest | Apr 7, 2019 | General News, Publications
Drawing on data from surveys and interviews, the EvalFest team found high rates of evaluation use among its science festival partners across the United States. Recently published in Evaluation and Program Planning, this article uses data from festival team interviews...
by Kim Kiesewetter | Apr 5, 2019 | General News
EvalFest has collected over 10,000 survey responses (and counting!) from science festival attendees at 25 partner sites across the US over the last four years. This left us asking a question: who isn’t attending these events and what can we find out about them? This...
