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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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 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

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