Incoming TERC president, Christine Reich, panel speaker at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Board on Science Education Convocation on the Status of Informal Science and Engineering Education on June 16 in Washington, DC.

This session focuses on the goals for informal science and engineering learning across different settings identities of learners, ages, and how such goals are being met. Panelists will discuss how different goals have informed practice, evaluation, and research, how differing goals have shaped the focus Convocation on the Status of Informal Science and Engineering Education on different learners, and how the infrastructure for informal science and engineering learning environments influences these goals and outcomes.