Everything Is Science: A Free City-Wide Science Festival

Jarrod W. Creameans; Michelle G. Pitts; Olivia White; Kellen M. Greenwell; Kristie Colón; Sylvie Garneau-Tsodikova; Vincent J. Venditto

doi:10.3389/fcomm.2020.00068

Everything Is Science: A Free City-Wide Science Festival

Jarrod W. Creameans, Michelle G. Pitts, Olivia White, Kellen M. Greenwell, Kristie Colón, Sylvie Garneau-Tsodikova, Vincent J. Venditto

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Abstract

A week-long, city-wide science festival called Everything is Science (EiS) was developed to educate the community in an informal manner. The festival serves as a platform for presenters from diverse professions to give engaging talks (without PowerPoint slides) to the public, free of charge, in restaurants and bars around town. Over 350 people attended the events over 5 days with 33 presenters. Surveys completed by attendees and session coordinators indicate strong support for this festival. Altogether, the EiS festival serves as a no-cost method to engage with the community and improve science literacy with potential for adoption in other cities.

Original language	English
Article number	00068
Journal	Frontiers in Communication
Volume	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2020.00068
State	Published - 2020

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© 2020 Creameans, Pitts, White, Greenwell, Colón, Garneau-Tsodikova and Venditto.

Keywords

STEM education
public engagement
public health
science communication
science literacy

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Communication
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)

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