Design and Management of Science Enrichment Programmes: connecting scientists with children

• Autor(a) principal: Fernandes, Joana Maria Bordalo
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/153019
• topic: Comunicação de Ciência; Educação de Ciência; Outreach; Programas de Enriquecimento Curricular de Ciência; Desigualdades Sociais e Educativas; Inclusão; Diversidade; Science Communication; Science Education; Science Outreach; Science Enrichment Programmes; Educational and Social Inequities; Inclusion; Diversity; Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Ciências da Comunicação

This is a final report on two internships I carried out between September 2020 and November 2021 for the completion of my Master’s degree in Science Communication. The first was completed at Native Scientist, a European-wide non-profit organization registered in the UK, where I was given the responsibility to manage one of their science enrichment and outreach programmes – Native Schools. There, I gained a range of soft skills, from programme management to leadership skills. As an outcome of this internship, I co-founded a new, nationwide science enrichment programme in Portugal – @ Cientista Regressa à Escola, a programme that tackles social and educational inequities by promoting the return of scientists to their elementary schools to deliver interactive science workshops. This report also includes the design, implementation and management of the programme. The second internship was hosted by the Communications and Outreach Office of the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology of the University of Illinois, United States. There, I gained first-hand experience of working at an office with a different approach to Science Communication and learned about the management of science education programmes in an academic setting. As part of the internship, I conducted a focus group study on the feasibility of setting up a similar programme to @ Cientista Regressa à Escola in the United States. The report ends with my personal contribution to an application for European funds supporting Science Communication and Education projects.