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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: “Debris, Diatoms, and Dolphins”
Article: Debris, diatoms, and dolphins: tracking child engagement at a public science festival. What do we know? Science festival environments can provide the opportunity for children to engage in a wide range of activities, however, there had been no research done on...
Science Festival Snippets: “Celebrating STEM in Rural Communities”
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...
Science Festival Snippets: “Going to these events truly opens your eyes.”
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! Be on the...
Bringing EvalFest Resources to the Community: Visitor Studies Association Meeting 2019
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...
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