Informal Science Education PI Meeting 2012
CAISE convened 241 PIs for the biennial National Science Foundation (NSF) Informal Science Education (ISE) Program Principal Investigator Meeting, March 14-16, 2012 at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C.
Meeting documentation is available from the CAISE Convening Wiki. The wiki includes meeting notes, the final program, and other resources shared by PIs.
Join our Linkedin Group to continue discussing topics from the meeting. The gallery of images below were contributed by PIs, browse the gallery to view more information about projects that were represented at the meeting.
Adele penguins near Cape Royds, Antarctica. Photo by John Weller View project description
The 143 m JOIDES Resolution has traveled 417,630 miles, crossed the Equator, Arctic Cirle, and Antarctic Circle several times, and drilled in all the world's oceans from 80 degrees N to 71 degrees S, and recovered more than 155 miles of core samples. View project description
Rubber Band Powered Cars (Design-It!) at an NPASS afterschool site View project description
Project team at Marcellus drill site View project description
Over 50,000 people turned out at Central Park to engage in playful learning! Each activity was grounded in a nugget of science and we gave out a free 75-page Playbook that offered scientific underpinnings in lay language. View project description
Will we soon be able to grow human hearts? Part of the PBS NewsHour's look at Tissue Engineers View project description
Mae Jemison, the first African-American woman in space, leads young people through Cape Cosmos, an introduction to women and African-Americans in the space program at http://capecosmos.org View project description
Hatching new scientists every day View project description
Researchers and the public interacting at the Cambridge Science Festival's Science Carnival. View project description
Science and Literacy View project description
Middle school students prepare an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle for launch into the York River, Chesapeake Bay. Here they attach the side scan sonar to the robot that will image shipwrecks from the last major battle of the American Revolution. View project description
Richard Alley's avatar rides the "climate roller coaster" in a sequence illustrating tipping points, from the second "Earth: The Operators' Manual" special, POWERING THE PLANET. Premiering on PBS and online, Earth Day 2012. “Check local listings!" View project description
Citizen Scientists find ladybugs, take pictures, send data to The Lost Ladybug Project at lostladybug.org ! View project description
Tornado Alley is a large-format 2D/3D film and comprehensive outreach program exploring the science behind severe weather events. View project description
The project experimented with interpretive bilingual installations in a New York public park. Each set of signs focused on a sustainability issue that engaged passers-by and transformed the park into a STEM learning opportunity. View project description
During the Visions'11 expedition, live video from 300 miles off the OR coast and from 9000 ft beneath the oceans surface was streamed live to the Internet and into the Portal at the Pacific Science Center View project description
Youth Radio students experiment with DIY digital instruments during a Brains & Beakers event in Oakland. Photo: Kai Hsing. View project description
Ecologist Dr. Simon Hart (right) studies community assembly and species coexistence in aquatic ecosystems. During July 2011, high school students in the SIFT and TERF programs helped him set up a new large-scale project at Tyson Research Center. View project description
The most recent season of NOVA scienceNOW featured the work of scientists who are developing new space suits, foods, and rockets that may support future Mars-bound astronaut, among other stories from the frontiers of scientific research. View project description
Putting math into a common library display: the estimating jar. We use two jars, one with small objects, and one with identical larger objects. Estimations are public: children and parents write their thinking about how many and why for all to see. View project description
The OLLI at Southern Oregon U collaborated with ScienceWorks on a class about Leonardo da Vinci. Class members on their own initiative built a working camhammer and painted a mural, both now are exhibits at ScienceWorks. View project description
Exploring hobbies View project description
Cyberchase, the award-winning PBS KIDS GO! math series, offers an extensive website for 8 to 11-year-olds featuring hundreds of videos, games and hands-on activities to support STEM learning. View project description
Time Team America is a television program with an integrated field school about archaeology in North America that promotes 'Archaeology as a Gateway to Science.' View project description
University of California, Berkeley student facilitating a sink and float exploration with young visitors to the Lawrence Hall of Science. View project description
Visitors entering the Black Holes exhibition choose a nickname and take a digital picture or avatar image to create their own Black Hole Explorer's Card. At other stations, they use the card to collect discoveries and generate a personalized website. View project description
A scientist who has participated in a science communication workshop interacts with a young visitor on the museum fllor. View project description
The ASP produced outreach training materials to help amateur astronomy clubs improve their public outreach, as part of a project to assess and enhance cultures of outreach in astronomy clubs. View project description
Young library patrons learn about our planet at the Discover Earth exhibition in Diboll, TX. View project description
Yong visitors tour the Great Balls of Fire exhibition at the Science Museum of Virginia. View project description
A scene from the tea room of The Matter of Origins. View project description
NOVA's Making Stuff and host David Pogue View project description
QUEST, Exploring Science and Environment in Northern California and Beyond View project description
Representative page from the project's website - Hurricanes: Science and Society View project description
Viewing a 3-D visualization at the UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center View project description
Lucretia Fairchild measures a Northern Fulmar bill on a hilly day on Cape Glazenap beach in the Bering Sea, Alaska. Photo: A. Bohl View project description
This graphic is the cover page of newly developed CoCoRaHS training resources. The Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network is beginning evapotranspiration monitoring and hydrologic cycle/water balance education. View project description
ScienceMakers Woodrow Whitlow, Jr.; Ralph Etienne-Cummings; Joycelyn Harrison; John Hall; and Ayanna Howard at the Fernbank Science Center during one of ScienceMakers' ten public program. View project description
Cyberlearning speakers give TED-like talks at the first Cyberlearning Research Summit. View project description
Program participants showcase the frames of their hybrid carts. View project description
View inside New York State Pavilion. View project description
The first five years of life are a time of amazing change. Experiences, especially during infancy and early childhood, form a base for later development. Families learn together about research on early childhood development. View project description
Contribute YOUR program to our nationwide research study of out-of-school-time science, engineering & technology programs for middle and high school-aged youth. View project description
RR2P Homepage View project description
TV411 What's Cooking? Chef Jamika Pessoa cooks up delicious recipes with a pinch of science and a dash of math View project description
Co-PI David Begay and advisor Dennis Martinez at the Generations of Knowledge advisory group meeting View project description
Film crew shooting the Valles Caldera documentary, focusing on communicating climate change research results to the public View project description
Initial version of avatar to be used in Orlando Science Center exhibit View project description
World Wide Views on Biodiversity will is a public consultation event that will take place on September 15, 2012, and include citizens around the world. US partners will develop outreach activities that will broaden participation. View project description
Science STARS girls investigate the effectiveness of different hand-washing techniques. View project description
This project collected 201 summaries of art & theater, citizen science, exhibits, festivals, inquiry activities, media, meet-the-scientist, on-site research, reference materials, take-action, and science cafes and forums like the one shown here. View project description
This is the opening screen of an activity in which two or more people explore and discuss personal experiences, scientific evidence, and societal values that influence their thinking about a socio-scientific question. View project description
A Living Laboratory collaborator conducts a research study with a young child in the Museum of Science Discovery Center. View project description
NanoDays kits went to 225 sites in 2012 supporting partnerships to engage the public in learning about nanotechnology. View project description
The Finding NEO small exhibit at the Fiske Planetarium in Boulder, Colorado. View project description
This graphic summarized the game at its conclusions. Similar graphics were included weekly so that new and returning players could keep up with events as they unfolded in the game. View project description
At Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose, a young visitor studies a juvenile mammoth replica, recreated based on fossils discovered at the nearby river. View project description
Parkside Community Center - New York City Housing Authority View project description
The DISCUSS Colloquium brought together 21 Science Museum Leaders, Technical Experts and Colloquium Participants from June 14-16, 2010 in Marblehead, MA to establish the 1.0 version of open platform, shared Digital Immersive Giant Screen Specifications... View project description
In Human + we explore how technology, defined broadly, is having an impact on human abilities. Bill Shannon is a dancer who uses crutches that he designed and a skateboard as part of his art. He developed this in response to a degenerative hip diseas... View project description
She Won the Game! View project description
Participants at a Teen Cafe Scientifique View project description
Please meet Ada and Grace. View project description
Panning for Science View project description
Wordle representation of DEVISE, excerpted from notes from the first Advisory Board Meeting. View project description
YardMap infographic showing the average landscaping in a typical American yard. View project description
Math Education Meets Environmental Organizing View project description
The Carbon Smarts Conference brought individuals and institutions from diverse domains together to explore the challenges of climate change communication to a general audience. View project description
We are building iSaveSpecies family research stations at zoos nationwide that engage large public audiences in science and environmental stewardship. View project description
Wild Research includes a range of tech and non-tech elements to create communities of inquiry on zoo grounds. View project description
Los Angeles Unified School District Elementary Schools: Students at 5 different locations throughout the Los Angeles area had plenty of fun doing Kids' Science Challenge activities! View project description
Visitors at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology view items from the museum collection using Open Exhibits software running on a multitouch table and on iphones, ipads, and Android devices. View project description