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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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Are Science Festivals Good for the Environment?
Are science festivals good (or bad) for the environment? Three science festivals from across the EvalFest network have come together for a mini-grant project, led by the UK’s Festival of Nature, to explore how science festivals can evaluate their environmental impact...
New, Not Different: Who Attends Science Festival Expos?
Using data from nearly 10,000 attendees from 24 EvalFest science festival expos, the EvalFest team found that, similar to other public science events, the majority of attendees are well-educated and middle-class. Yet, the majority of festival-goers are new each year,...
The Importance of Data Visualization
It’s finally done. You’ve spent months and months preparing for data collection…. then collecting the actual data at your event… then managing all the data you’ve collected… then analyzing it. You have honed in on all the numbers, percents, and other statistics and...
Speaking Truth to Power: EvalFest at AEA 2018
November is a time for gratitude, pumpkin spice lattes, yoga pants (so what if I’m a little “basic”?!), and the American Evaluation Association’s annual meeting! Just fresh off the heels of Halloween, AEA was held November 1st-3rd in the lovely City of Cleveland and...
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