Session Listing
ASTC 2022 Annual Conference
September 12–15, 2022
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Partial list of confirmed sessions at ASTC 2022
(as of July 14)
SUBJECT TO CHANGE
Preconference Intensives
Pre-registration and additional fee required.
- Biotinkering Bootcamp: Systems and strategies for creating experiences that support creativity and making with biology
- Building Bridges to the Future Leadership Challenges 2022
- Community Science Dialogue & Deliberation Pre-Conference Intensive
- Day at MuseumLab: A Creative Track of Interactive Sessions Outside the Conference Center
- Designing for Empathy Lab
- From accommodations to inclusion: co-creating maker programs with and for neurodiverse youth
- Meaningful Makerspaces: Using Human-Centered Design to Create Mission-Driven Makerspaces from the Ground Up
- Science Communication and Engagement with Faith Communities
- Sustainability: Transforming buildings in the steel city to provide high quality educational experiences
- The Landscape of Education for Climate Action
See additional details about ASTC Intensives.
Concurrent and Lightning Sessions
- 15 Years of Remaking Learning in Pittsburgh: How to Start, Scale, and Sustain Learning Ecosystems
- Advancing Community Priorities: Community Science in Practice
- Assessing How Americans Want to Engage With Science: Research to Inform Public Engagement Initiatives
- Being Okay with Not Being Okay: Thinking About Mental Health
- Beyond Science Lessons, Towards Science Experiences
- Beyond STEM: Making and tinkering experiences that center social emotional learning, literacy, and identity
- Build (Your Community) Back Better: Discovering your museum superpowers to enhance community and urban planning
- Building Collaborations Having Statewide Impact: Exploring Asset-based Approaches to Partnering, Implementing and Funding Rural Communities
- Building Lasting Community Partnerships
- Business Development + Experience Design: It’s Time to ACT!
- Care Circles: The Future of Governance & Engagement
- Centering Participant Voice: Research Approaches that Emphasize Co-creation, Agency, and Belonging
- Connecting Museums and Libraries to Promote Community Engagement in Citizen Science
- Connecting on Climate: Tools for Action, Engagement and Connection Across Cultural Institutions
- Creating Planetary Advocates: Empowering People to Take Action (When They Don’t Know How)
- Creating Volunteer Programs of Tomorrow: How Museums Are Improving Volunteer Support, Training, and Professional Development
- Cultivating Youth Voice: Storytelling for a Purpose
- Demystifying Engineering for Teachers, Parents and Preschoolers
- Design Lab X Bootcamp: Community Co-creation for Impact, Change, and Leadership
- Developing Whole Institution Sustainability Projects for Science Centers and Museums
- Does the real thing matter? Making sense of authenticity in informal science learning
- Dream It, Plan It, Evaluate it: Inspiring Equity in STEM Environments
- Engaging Your Community on Difficult Topics: Lessons From Communities For Immunity
- Equity in the UK: Science centres’ efforts towards greater diversity, inclusion, and access
- Expanding the Universe: Building Partnerships in a COVID World and Beyond
- Exploring U.S. Federal Funding Opportunities
- Feeding Hungry Minds and Fulfilling Human Services: Inspiring Underserved Youth in STEM Throughout the U.S.
- Feeling “Art-Sci”: An Upside-Down Look at Collaborations Between Performing Arts and Exhibiting Science
- Forward to the Future: How Innovation Drove the Creation of the Museum of the Future
- Getting Started and Keeping Going: DEAAIJ Working Groups within Museums
- Go Where the People Are and Do What the People Do: Experimenting with Situated Engagement
- House of Commons: Let the Debates Begin!
- Imagination in STEM: Research, Practice, and Visions for the Future
- Increasing Representation in STEM: The IF/THEN Collection
- Leadership in the Science Center, Garden, and Office: Empowering BIPOC Community and Organizational Leaders
- Leadership Lab: Road to Recovery Edition
- Leveraging Artemis and the Return to the Moon to Engage New Learners
- Leveraging the “Ladder of STEM Engagement to Ownership” to Build More Equitable Outcomes
- Lightning Session: Across Generations
- Lightning Session: Advancement & Operations
- Lightning Session: Co-Creation
- Lightning Session: DEAI & Organizational Change
- Lightning Session: Evaluation & Data Collection
- Lightning Session: Exhibits & Programming
- Lightning Session: Technology & Museums
- Lightning Session: Youth & Technology
- Looking Back, Moving Forward: Reflections and Roadmaps for Rebuilding Our Field Together
- Making Matches to Collaborate on Youth Program Alum Long-term Impact Studies
- Measuring a Sense of Belonging at Museums and Cultural Institutions
- Measuring Social Impact for Strategic Change
- NFTs: Creating, Collecting, and Educating at the Cutting Edge
- On Board and on Mission: Focus on culture for recruiting and retaining great staff.
- Organizational Structures and Processes for Achieving Your Goals
- Pay, Play, or Get Paid: What Role Should Teens Have in Museums?
- Planning for Resiliency in the Design of Building Sites and Visitor Experiences
- Power in the People: Community Engagement Perspectives in a Time of Crisis
- Prioritizing Equity: A DEAI Dialogue for All
- Productive Tension: Advancing Research that Advances Institutions
- Project Pragmatists: Navigating the New Normal
- Prototyping with Pens, Paper, and Play: An Interactive Session on Testing Early Exhibit Designs
- Race and Unity: Let’s Create a Roadmap for Inclusive Programs and Exhibitions
- Reengineering Your Brand to Maximize Engagement
- Reflections on Equity Practices, Policies and Communications
- Reinforcing the Message: Weaving Climate Stories Throughout Galleries and Exhibits
- Say Yes to the Mess: Our DEAI Journey Reflections and You Taking Action Going Forward!
- ScienceNearMe.org: A New Infrastructure to Connect Audiences Across Silos of Informal STEM Engagement and Learning
- Seizing Opportune Moments: Stories from museums taking on big change in a changing world
- Simple Interactions: The Power of Positive Relational Practices Within Museums
- STEM Teens: Engaging Teens and Visitors in STEM Learning through Youth Programs
- The Future of Professional Learning: Brainstorming solutions for professional development problems in a post-pandemic world
- The National STEM Gaming Network: Let’s Talk About Purposeful Gaming
- The Use of Mobile Informal STEM Labs for Bridging Educational Gaps in Rural Communities
- Through an Indigenous Lens: Support & Advocacy of Science Centres/Museums through Indigenous Advisory Committees
- Transforming Our Capacity for Inclusive and Authentic STEM Experiences for Latinx Audiences
- Under the Umbrella of Co-designing and Iteration
- Unpacking Immersion in Museums
- What Listening Looks Like
- What more can we find? How sustaining inquiry impacts museum teams, audiences, and inclusivity.
- Whose Impact is it Anyway? Exploring what counts as impact, who decides, and its measurement
- Why Artists Matter in Science Museums
- Working Across Dimensions: DEAI Tools and Practices
- Working Together Toward Better Co-creation
Posters
- A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats: A Post-pandemic Education Framework Powered by Partnerships
- A systematic review and case study for multidisciplinary projects between the arts and sciences
- Assessment Interactive Multimedia Exhibition to Learning Food and Drug Safety: A Practical experiment
- Beyond Museum Walls Prototyping: Strategies for virtual testing of a digital game online
- Beyond the whiz-bang: Embedding evaluation into science shows
- Broadening Participation in ISE: Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access in Science Centers
- Business Development: SaudiFDA establishing Interactive Science Center with Entrepreneurship Center to innovate, develop and implement exhibitions
- Collaborative Inquiry: Best practices in creating STEM learning partnerships
- Creating a STEM Program for Teens using Engineering and Technology Artifacts from World War II
- Creating Cross-Curricular Content Using Math in Social Studies
- Developing a Combination of Immersive Technology for Planetarium Content in Informal Learning Context
- Discovering Partnerships: Discovery Lab + Tulsa Public Schools STEM Center
- Engaging Visitors with Biology through Biotinkering: Impacts on Learner Engagement, Interests, and Attitudes
- Engineering Together: ISE Professionals Collaborate to Champion Youth and Family Engineering Practices in ASEE Framework
- Examining Trends in Natural History Science Museums and Aligning With K-12 Teacher & Learner Needs
- External Groups and Collaborators for Exhibitions
- Floor Facilitators and their role in learning conversations among visitors
- Green Strategies for Traveling Exhibitions
- How to Design Successful Hands-on STEAM Activities for At-home Learners
- Levels of Engagement for Autistic Individuals at Zoos and Aquariums: From Sensory Tolerance to Inclusion
- Making Do: Community Makerspace Partnerships to Support STEM Programs
- Making with a Mission: an Interdepartmental Collaboration between a Museum Box Office and Fab Lab
- Mission to Mars: The National Air and Space Museum’s in Person & Virtual STEM Camp
- Museum Labs 2.0: Measuring the impact of Public Participation in Scientific Research
- Museum Networks Across the State
- NASA Resources for You!
- NASA’s Neurodiversity Network (N3): Co-designing NASA resources with neurodiverse youth in formal and informal spaces
- Noticing and supporting families’ agency as STEM learners in science center environments
- Project PLANET: Working Together to Bridge Student Learning Between Formal and Informal Learning Environments
- Rebounding through Making and Tinkering: Activities to Support the Emotional Needs of Children
- Rubrics for Researching Depth of Implementation: Creating Tools Practitioners Can Use for Teen Science Cafes
- STEP Outside: Engaging students and teachers in outdoor learning
- Striking a Playful Balance: Understanding how Exhibits can Afford Playful STEM Engagement for Young Learners
- Telling the Stories of Diverse Local Scientists to a Science Center Audience
- The impact of informal museum programs on STEM career awareness, interest, and engagement: A meta-synthesis
- The Long Game: Using Games to Transform Science Center Experiences
- The Perceptions and Practices of Informal Science Educators regarding Culturally Relevant Education in Science Centers
- The Story of Kapa: Indigenous Cultural Practice Translated to Hands-On STEM Learning Experiences
- To Be Entertained and Informed: The What, How and Why of Science Documentary Viewership
- Unboxed Challenges: The Educational Version of Sneaking Veggies Into Spaghetti Sauce
- University partnerships for stability and continuity in times of change
- Visitor Data in the COVID Era: Looking Back to Move Forward
- We Bee-long: Making connections in our community