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Seeding your future conference, moving middle schoolers from in-person lab experiences to virtual at-home experiments

Date
April 13, 2021

Seeding Your Future Conference, a local STE(A)M conference for middle school aged participants identifying as girls, involves around 100 participants and almost as many volunteers and workshop leaders for a full-day of hands-on lab and classroom experiences ranging from chemistry to coding to molecular gastronomy. After six successful years of holding the conference, including data collection using an IRB process of multiple participant surveys, the pandemic hit. The organizers, all faculty members from Shepherd University, had to make the decision to run the conference virtually or pause the conference indefinitely. The decision was made to not collect data and still hold the conference using online conferencing tools and take-home workshop materials.
Here we present the various factors that went into the planning and execution of a virtual conference for middle schoolers versus the traditional in-person approach.

Presenter

Speaker Image for Jacquelyn Cole
Associate Professor of Chemistry, Department Chair, Shepherd University

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