ED42A:
Tools, Resources, and Lessons Learned for Scientists and Engineers Engaging in Education and Public Outreach I


Session ID#: 8925

Session Description:
Education and public outreach (EPO) activities are opportunities to connect scientists and engineers, subject matter experts, directly to students, teachers, informal educators, and the public. Engaging subject matter experts with these diverse audiences has many direct benefits include personalizing scientific discoveries and engaging a new generation of STEM professionals.  This session is a venue where scientists and engineers can share tools, resources and lessons learned about sharing their work in EPO contexts and where EPO professionals can share best practices to help improve the satisfaction of EPO activities for scientists, engineers, and audience members.  Scientists, engineers and EPO professionals who have evaluation data or participant feedback from their EPO activities will be invited to share their evaluation tools and results.
Primary Convener:  Sanlyn Buxner, Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, AZ, United States
Conveners:  JA Grier, Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, AZ, United States, Lora Bleacher, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Bryan Mendez, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Chairs:  Sanlyn Buxner, Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, AZ, United States and Lora Bleacher, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Sanlyn Buxner, Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, AZ, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • P - Planetary Sciences
  • SH - SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics
Index Terms:

0805 Elementary and secondary education [EDUCATION]
0815 Informal education [EDUCATION]
0840 Evaluation and assessment [EDUCATION]
0845 Instructional tools [EDUCATION]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Choose Your Own Adventure: Designing an Environment that Supports NASA Scientists’ Goals in Education, Outreach, and Inreach (Invited) (75372)
Sarah DeWitt, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States
Podcasting as a Medium to Share STEAM Fields (76390)
John Leeman1, Shannon A Dulin2, Ben Etherington3, David Fourman3, Steve Pestana3 and Connor West3, (1)Leeman Geophysical, Siloam Springs, United States, (2)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States, (3)The Orbital Mechanics, Chico, CA, United States
Student Journalists in the Field: Bridging the Gap Between Science and Communication (Invited) (69280)
Timothy D Glotch1, Andrea P Jones2, Lora Bleacher3, Barbara Selvin4 and Richard Firstman4, (1)Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, United States, (2)Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, AZ, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States
Engaging Scientists in Education; the benefits of teacher-researcher pairs. (Invited) (66401)
Louis Mayo, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Providing Context for Complexity: Using Infographics and Conceptual Models to Teach Global Change Processes (75610)
Jessica Rebecca Bean and Lisa D White, University of California Berkeley, Museum of Paleontology, Berkeley, CA, United States
Connecting Scientists, College Students, Middle School Students & Elementary Students through Intergenerational Afterschool STEM Programming (84912)
Nancy A Ali1, Ruth Paglierani2, Claire L Raftery3, Valeria Romero4, Macha Rose Harper5, Christine Chilcott6, Laura M Peticolas2, Karin Hauck2, Darlene Yan7, Igor Ruderman2 and Renee Frappier2, (1)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)University of California Berkeley, Multiverse, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)National Solar Observatory, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)University of California Berkeley, East Bay Academy for Young Scientists, Berkeley, CA, United States, (5)Girls Inc. of Alameda County, Oakland, CA, United States, (6)Girls Inc. of the Island City, Alameda, CA, United States, (7)University of California, Berkeley, Multiverse, Berkeley, CA, United States
The Year of the Solar System Undergraduate Research Conference: Bringing Student Researchers and Scientists Together in a Professional Conference Setting (76163)
Andrew J Shaner1, Sanlyn Buxner2, Emily Joseph2 and Emily CoBabe-Ammann3, (1)Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX, United States, (2)Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, AZ, United States, (3)The Climate Strategies Group, Boulder, CO, United States
Lessons Learned at LPI for Scientists in Education and Public Outreach (Invited) (73863)
Christine B Shupla1, Georgiana Y Kramer1, Juliane Gross2, Andrew J Shaner1, Heather Dalton1, JA Grier3, Sanlyn Buxner3, Stephanie Staples Shipp1 and Amanda Smith Hackler1, (1)Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX, United States, (2)Rutgers University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Piscataway, NJ, United States, (3)Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, AZ, United States

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