This article documents the development and use of a mystery shopper protocol for observing scientists’ interactions with the public within the context of science festival expo booths.

Publication by Karen Peterman and Denise Young

Visitors to public science festivals have a tremendous amount of free choice to decide how to navigate through the festival, as well as when, where, and how long to stop at an exhibit. This study examines how elementary-aged children individually or collaboratively engaged with festival exhibits at a public science festival in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Publication by Kaya van Beynen & Theresa Burress

This commentary explores the kinds of audiences who attend science festivals in the United States by examining data from nearly 10,000 attendees from 24 festivals.

Publication by Katherine Nielsen, M. J. Gathings, and Karen Peterman

This methodological review considers science festival evaluation and research studies that have been published in the peer-reviewed literature since 2011, when modern-day science festivals were defined formally.

Publication by Karen Peterman , Monae Verbeke, and Katherine Nielsen

Over the past decade, science festival expos have emerged as popular opportunities for practicing scientists to engage in education outreach with public audiences. In this paper, a partial proportional odds model was used to analyze 5,498 surveys collected from attendees at 14 science expos around the United States.

Publication by Todd Boyette and J. Ross Ramsey

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Program and other information for the 2025 Science Events Summit in Philadelphia, PA.

Program and other information for the 2024 Science Events Summit in Los Angeles, CA.

Program and other information for the 2023 Science Events Summit in Atlanta, GA.

Program and other information for the 2022 Science Events Summit in Cambridge, MA.

A self-assessment checklist associated with the Place vs. Space module. Download it and try it out!

Program for the 2019 Science Events Summit in San Diego, CA

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Program for the 2018 Science Events Summit in St. Petersburg, FL

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Program for the 2017 International Public Science Events Conference in Madiscon, WI

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Program for the 2016 International Public Science Events Conference in Cambridge, MA

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Program for the 2015 International Public Science Events Conference in Cambridge, MA

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Program for the 2014 International Public Science Events Conference in Chicago, IL

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Program for the 2012 International Public Science Events Conference in Columbus, OH

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Program for the 2011 International Public Science Events Conference in Washington, DC

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A video introduction to the growing membership at www.science.events, presented by Ben Wiehe (he/him), Experimental Practice Group (MIT Museum)

The 2024 Science Event Summit featured a public science event on the first evening. Two attendees were asked ahead of time to observe the event as they participated in it, and then take part in a review and gentle critique of the event during a Summit session the next day. This short document was given to the observers and one of the producers of the event in order to coordinate this process.

Welcome sign for the 2024 Science Events Summit at the Petersen Automotive Museum

The overall objective of Science Live was to support the development of a distinct professional sector based on live public science events so that the practitioners, researchers, and external supporters of this sector are able to maximize the beneficial impacts of events and widen participation in this activity. This survey of the live public science events landscape was the product of a one-year, Phase I grant from the Science Learning+ funding program.

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Recommended Resources from the "Speaking of Science" and "Process of Co-Design" Workshops, including "slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations", "The Asset-Based Community Development Institute (ABCD)", and the National Equity’s Guide for helping develop community agreements.

A list of all of the attendees at the 2024 Science Events Summit in Los Angeles, CA.

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