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Science as Service: New Models of Scientific Engagement

Science as Service: New Models of Scientific Engagement. Morgan Thompson PhD Candidate, Harvard Medical School Science in the News, Outreach Director (2010-Present) Science in the News, Co-Director (2008-2010) Huntington’s Outreach Project for Education at Stanford (HOPES), Editing Consultant.

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Science as Service: New Models of Scientific Engagement

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  1. Science as Service: New Models of Scientific Engagement Morgan Thompson PhD Candidate, Harvard Medical School Science in the News, Outreach Director (2010-Present) Science in the News, Co-Director (2008-2010) Huntington’s Outreach Project for Education at Stanford (HOPES), Editing Consultant

  2. Science Corps Roger Harris Chris Mooney Sheril Kirschenbaum

  3. Science Corps • a science-based service organization that trains and channels scientists into new and existing programs of direct science engagement and service • Community-based research • Formal and informal education • Participatory technology assessment • Who participates: post-baccalaureate science practitioners (social and natural scientists) • Who is served: all ages; focus on helping underserved communities

  4. The Weather’s Fine www.whitehouse.gov/issues/education/educate-innovate techbostonacademy.org President Barack Obama and Melinda Gates talk with students while visiting a classroom at TechBoston Academy in Dorchester, MA, March 8, 2011. (Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson)

  5. The Premise • Production of Masters and PhD -trained scientists exceeds academic and industry demands • Build capacity, evaluation, and effectiveness of efforts to democratize science and increase access to and accessibility of science • Existing efforts need to be united, supported, and spread in a sustainable way

  6. Science Corps • Goals: • Provide useful, meaningful service collaboratively with communities • Increase understanding of science • Improve access to and accessibility of scientific knowledge • Promote direct engagement with science and scientific practice • Democratize science • Humanize science and scientists • Increase representation • Interdisciplinary training of the scientific workforce • Provide new career paths for scientists • Bridging the “two cultures” • Systemically evaluate, optimize, innovate, build capacity, and increase sustainability of existing and new science outreach programs • Change scientific culture to promote and reward engagement

  7. Science Corps • Logistics • Structure (recruit, train, place, supervise) • Potential partners • Funding • Organizational housing • Measures of success • Communities reporting back better engagement with science issues thanks to SC volunteers and future impacts • SC scientists reporting back that the experience was pivotal in their careers and future impacts • Movement of SC alums into new careers in and out of academia • Widespread endorsement of program by universities and science societies • Calls for SC volunteer to come to communities/schools/etc. • Higher proportion of underrepresented groups at all science career stages • Influence of SC programs on national science policy • Problems to anticipate • Scientific misinformation • Agenda promotion • Maintaining continuity

  8. Potential partners • Participatory technology assessment • Community-based research • Community Innovators Lab (CoLab) @MIT • Science Education Partnership and Assesment Laboratory (SEPAL) • Mobile Science Labs • CityLab @ B U School of Medicine • Cell Motion Bio Bus • Citizen/DIY science movements • Science cheerleader • DIY BIO • Science in the News @ Harvard (and now @ Yale! with @MIT coming soon) • PopTech • RSA Animate (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) • Guerilla Science • The Laboratory @ Harvard: Experiments in Arts and Sciences • Science Cabaret • Science Cafes • Science Festivals • Private partnerships • IBM Smarter Planet • Lucas Aerospace “Hob Cart” • Science House

  9. Scientists near graduation who are United States citizens or permanent residents at least 21 years of age would be encouraged to apply to the program. Master and PhD –trained scientists would be particularly encouraged and later career researchers would also be considered. • As with existing AmeriCorps volunteers, all Science Corps participants completing their terms of service would receive a Segal AmeriCorps Education Award, currently valued at $5,350 for a year of service. • ScienceCorps could be a standalone entity, or could channel scientists into the Clean Energy, Health, and Education Corps created under the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act. • If a standalone entity, ScienceCorps might be funded by grants distributed through the National Science Foundation, and managed by an outside organization (perhaps a university or scientific society, or several) whose duty would be to recruit, train, place, and supervise ScienceCorps volunteers.

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