ASTC 2018 Presentations and Resources

Below are downloadable materials that organizers submitted by the deadline—from events, the Live Demonstration Hour, poster presentations, and sessions.

On ASTC’s YouTube channel, you can see the ASTC 2018 Keynote Presentations by Ed Yong and Kumar Garg, the Alan J. Friedman Dialogue, pieces on the poster sessions and pop-up #MakerSpaceASTC, interviews with conference participants, and much more.

Additional conference information is available on the ASTC Conference Blog; photos of various events and activities are available on ASTC’s Flickr page; and you can see what people were saying and feeling in real time by browsing #ASTC2018 on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

Events

CEO Forum

Development Breakfast: Aligning Your Partnerships with Corporate Citizenship

Workshop—Up the Learning Curve: Tips and Networking for New CEOs and Senior Leaders

 

Live Demonstration Hour

The Bernoulli Effect (Death Star Edition)

Plasma Spheres and Suface Tension

Soap Bubble Science

Some Sound Experiments from the World Science Festival

Under Pressure

 

Poster Presentations

Building Partnerships While Breaking Silos: Reinventing Place-based Outreach in Rural and Remote Communities

Introducing the Earthwalk Traveler—A National Scenic Visitors Center Exhibit  1 │ 2

Learning through Teaching in a STEM-Focused Youth Development Program

Museums as Models of Environmental Innovation

NASA Resources for You!

New Tech for User Interface—Touch Sensors, Tap Sensors, Solid State Sensors

One Size Fits All? Mapping Out STEM Learner Empowerment across Educational Contexts

Peer-led Professional Development and Mentorship: Reinventing Youth Workforce Development

Reaching into the Community: Immigrant Latino Adults from Mexico and Central America

Recognizing Youth Identities around Computational Thinking

Rethinking Resources: Shifting Museums from Industry to Community with Museum-University Partnerships

STEM Prep Summer Institute—Increasing Access and Diversity in STEM Fields

Teacher Professional Development: A Partnership for Innovation and Creativity

The Connectory: Connecting Youth to STEM Learning Opportunities to Explore, Discover, and Create  1 │ 2

WISE Guys and Gals—An Informal STEM Project Focusing on Engineering Design

 

Sessions

All on Their Own—Unfacilitated Making Experiences in Exhibits  1 │ 2

Breaking News! Communicating Science Headlines while They’re Hot

Building Science Capital and Engaging New Audiences in STEM Experiences

Coming Together to Prototype Innovation: Science Centers Educating Afterschool Providers in STEM and Making

Create Organizational Change by Focusing on Diversity in Volunteer Programs

Creating a Culture of Gender Equity

Discover! Play! Share! Using Play to Build Early Literacy and STEM Skills with Families

From Thin Mints to Thin Films: Museum Partnerships Engaging the Girl Scouts in STEM Education  1 │ 2

Get Out: Reinventing Our Relationships with Natural Spaces

How Reflective Practice Can Change Institutional Culture, Inside-Out

IMLS Support for Museum Professional Development  1 │ 2

Leading Change and Learning to Love It

Leveraging Statewide Partnerships for Scalable Outreach

Maximizing Girls’ Engagement in Informal Science Learning   1 │ 2

Professional Development Intensive: Dive Deep into the World of Early Childhood Science PD  1 │ 2

Professional Development through Regeneration: Diversity Fellows Program Is the Doctor Who for Science Museums  1 │ 2

Prototyping to Build Capacity: Using Iteration Processes to Facilitate Cross-departmental Collaborations and Change

Red Rover, Red Rover: Advocating for Play in Adult Programming  1 │ 2

Science Center Superheroes—Part Deux: Life at the Intersection of Passion and Practice