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IPSEC 2018: The Science Events Summit

Science in Vivo Deadline

ASTC Annual Conference

06.04.2018

06.18.2018

09.29.2018

UpcomingScience Festivals

Eureka! Festival

06.08.2018

Los Alamos ScienceFest - The Secret City UnLocked

07.11.2018

Beakerhead

09.19.2018

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Go Where the People Are: Science In Vivo

Leave home behind. Get out there and mix some science into real life. It's... Science In Vivo! In early 2018 the Science Festival Alliance publicly launched Science In Vivo,* a multi-year project focusing on science experiences that “go where the people are.” This toolk...

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Science Festival Alliance Membership Toolkit

The contents of this toolkit are for use by Science Festival Alliance (SFA) member festivals. For more on becoming a member, see the about section. For list of current SFA member festivals, see the interactive map or calendar. Recognizing Your Membership SFA logos Logos and graphic elements f...

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Science Events Spotlights

Science events take place at the energetic, messy, meaningful--and sometimes hilarious--live interface between real people and science. So it should come as no surprise that most science event organizers have a story or two to tell. We've collected hours of audio from recorded conve...

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The Science Festival Accelerator

Starting a festival in a community with a relatively small resource base? This is the toolkit for you. This toolkit is being created to support the Science Festival Accelerator, which launched in 2016 with funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. While the resources here are likely to be ...

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Evaluation Planning, Implementation and Reporting

The phrase “You get out of it what you put into it” is certainly true of evaluation. As powerful a tool as evaluation can be, it is often one of the last considerations of festivals in terms of time and budget. Many festival organizers have limited experience planning for and conducting evaluati...

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Go Where the People Are: Updated Deadline!

Leave home behind. Awards of $5,000, $10,000, and more are available. The second Call for Applications closes June 18, 2018. Get your a...

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2017: The Year in Public Science Events

This year we dabbled a bit with collecting annual report information on public science events writ large. To do so, we asked a small core of publi...

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The (sort of) New Science Events Summit

Where? St. Petersburg, Florida When? June 4 - 5 for the main conference, pre and post workshops are in the works Why? Wha...

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Science Events Summit: Call for Participation

Already registered? Why not take an active role in the meeting? This is about more than just cooking up a session proposal: there are several ways...

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Join the Party! Feature in Informal Learning Review

Science events snag the cover of the March/April issue of Informal Learning Review, along with a six-page article that considers the relevance of live...

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Nine New Science Festivals Announced

The Science Festival Alliance is continuously helping new science festivals get started, but this spring some communities are getting a special boost...

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