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Streamline EA team presents in London
Veronica Del Bianco and Cat Davis will lead a workshop at the May 2022 Visitor Study Group Conference in London,UK
New article on our AR Girls project
Taking part in creating location-based augmented reality (LBAR) experiences that focus on communication, art and design could serve as an entry point for art-oriented girls …
Apply to AR Girls Virtual Camp 2022!
Join AR Girls Virtual Camp this summer, and use your creativity and design skills to produce your own augmented reality (AR) experience centered around the …
Conference paper on articulating citizen scientist’s skills
Embedded assessment (EA) is particularly well-suited for evaluating citizen science volunteers’ proficiency of science inquiry skills; however they remain uncommon in informal education. With funding …
Book chapter published on a community of practice
Communities of practice (CoPs) offer an effective professional development approach that can support informal educators in their climate change education work. This book chapter tells …
Paper on assessing citizen scientists’ skills
Regular and transparent assessment of volunteers’ science inquiry skills can support the dual intertwining goals of citizen science to advance science learning and science research. …
Paper published on measuring quality of classroom technology use
As part of our NSF-funded Technology Observation Protocol in Science (TOP-Science) project, we have published an open-source article that how we develop our TOP-Science tool, …
New Classroom Observation Protocol available with video tutorials
With support from NSF, our collaborative team completed developing, testing and refining a classroom observation protocol that captures the quality of technology use in science …
Paper published on scientist outreach training
We recently had a paper published on the benefits of a comprehensive public-engagement training for scientists. The NSF-funded nationwide Portal to the Public (PoP) …

New NOAA Grant – Making the Link
We have been awarded a new almost $3K NOAA BWET grant, Making the Link! We will help teams of Maryland curriculum writers and environmental education …