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Pre-Community Engagement: Setting the Stage for Authentic Community Engagement​

“Pre-Community Engagement” provides a framework for how to prepare effectively ahead of community engagement; it proposes a fundamental shift to approaching community engagement in a way that centers community priorities, scheduling, and needs.

Tactics for Trust: Building Public Trust in Science and Beyond​

This playbook offers strategies for practitioners to enhance public trust in science. Drawing from diverse trustbuilders, it provides actionable insights to connect scientific endeavors with community needs, fostering transparency and accountability.

Engaging Your Community: A Toolkit for Museums​

This toolkit guides museums through a community engagement and self-assessment process to evaluate their relevance and strengthen relationships with their communities, thereby enhancing sustainability.

How to Host a Community Conversation: A Comprehensive Guide​

Three how-to guides cover organizing, facilitating, and participating in community conversations. Each guide underscores the importance of fostering collective responsibility, strengthening social bonds, and promoting collaborative problem-solving.

Teen Science Café Network: Research Highlights

The Teen Science Café Network supports teen science cafés across the country. In its 4th year, members reflect on the benefits and institutional alignment of this by-teen for-teen educational model and the challenges of teen engagement.

Data Jams: Promoting data literacy and science engagement while encouraging creativity 

Data Jams are a method of creatively engaging students with original scientific datasets.