Catch up with Karen Mutch-Jones at the 2025 DRK-12 PI Meeting June 9-11 in Arlington VA

June 6, 2025

The 2025 DRK-12 PI Meeting provides opportunities for learning, networking, and substantive conversations for approximately 300 DRK–12 project leaders, NSF program directors, and CADRE Fellows. On June 10, Karen will host a table talk in the morning and have a poster session in the afternoon.

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Scott Pattison moderates session 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.

June 5, 2025

Read more about his session, 15 Years After LSIE: Where are we now? Where have we moved the needle? This session will kick off the convocation with a dynamic conversation about the trajectory of the field of informal science and engineering education since the release of Learning Science in Informal Environments (LSIE).

Native STEM Portraits (NSP) featured in Winds of Change Magazine

June 4, 2025

Read the latest about NSP, a longitudinal study on the experiences of Native STEM students, faculty, and professionals and the barriers and supports they encounter in STEM. The NSP team combined quantitative and qualitative methods that included a survey and photo elicitation interviews.

Dionne Champion has been invited to The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Board on Science Education Convocation on the Status of Informal Science and Engineering Education

June 2, 2025

The event will take place on June 16-17 in Washington, DC and will bring together the research, practice, policy, and philanthropic communities to take stock of the progress that has been made since the release of the 2009 National Academies report, Learning Science informal Environments (LSIE).

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ReSounding Success: Celebrating 75 Years of STEM with the NSF

May 30, 2025

ReSounding Success celebrated sound and science in Chicago on May 10, 2025. The event offered Chicago residents ways to explore sound and learn about the National Science Foundation’s role in supporting citizen science and research projects on the design of out-of-school learning.

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