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“Science is bigger than you think.”
The Virginia Tech Science Festival is a one-day fall festival serving 3,500 to 6,000 people in the mountains of western Virginia working to help attendees learn just how all-encompassing science is. The festival is a collaborative effort spanning multiple university...
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Science Festival Snippets: “Understanding Engagement with Science Festivals”
Article: "Understanding Engagement with Science Festivals: Who Are the Engaged?" What do we know? In 2015, the British Science Association (BSA) began developing a framework to describe how various groups differentially engage with science. They posited the existence...
Science Festival Snippets: “How we engaged audiences in informal science education”
Article: "How we engaged audiences in informal science education through the inaugural Arkansas Science Festival" What do we know? Few science festivals are held in the rural Mississippi Delta, an economically poor region with a historically agricultural focus, little...
Science Festival Snippets: “Engaging the Public at a Science Festival”
Article: "Engaging the Public at a Science Festival: Findings From a Panel on Human Gene Editing" What do we know? Science is increasingly politicized in the United States. Public sentiment around scientific progress, particularly in areas considered controversial or...
Science Festival Snippets: “Why people attend science festivals”
Article: "Why people attend science festivals: interests, motivations and self-reported benefits of public engagement with research" What do we know? There is growing interest in understanding that public science events play an important role in encouraging engagement...
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