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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: “Using a Community-Created Multisite Evaluation to Promote Evaluation Use Across a Sector”
Article: Using a community-created multisite evaluation to promote evaluation use across a sector What do we know? While a strength of multisite evaluation is the ability to build increased knowledge about a program, a limitation of this approach has been challenges...
Science Festival Snippets: “Does The Messenger Matter?”
Article: Does the messenger matter? Studying the impacts of scientists and engineers interacting with public audiences at science festival events What do we know? This study was designed to explore what impact an interaction with a scientist had on science festival...
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...
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