Community Science Blog
Cultivating Community Science: Lessons from Three Museum-Community Partnerships
Our world faces a multitude of complex challenges at the intersection of science and society, from public health and climate change to AI and digital literacy. In the last decade,…
Civic Science Perspectives
Mulika Musyimi talks with his co-pilot and project director Sam Haynor at the Exploratorium about his CS project titled BayStories. Science centers and museums are places that reveal as well…
So you think you want to become a Community Science Fellow
A Q&A with Kate Semmens, Thriving Earth Exchange Community Science Fellow Kate Semmens is the Science Director at ASTC member Nurture Nature Center in Easton, Pennsylvania, where she helps advance the organization’s scientific and…
Introducing ASTC’s Community Science Initiative
As communities grapple with daunting global and local challenges, and as the role of science and technology in our society continues to evolve, access for all people to engage with,…
Learning Science in U.S. National Parks
By Tim Watkins From Dimensions May/June 2016 On a May morning in 2007, fourth grader Joshua White hopped on a city bus with his grandmother and rode across Washington, D.C.,…
Bridging the Gaps: Integrating Citizen Science Throughout an Institution
By Christine L. Goforth, Julie M. Urban, and Julie E. Horvath From Dimensions May/June 2014 At the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences (NCMNS), Raleigh, we’ve made citizen science a…