New Tools Support Career Excellence in Informal Learning

New Tools Support Career Excellence in Informal Learning

We think you’ll likely agree that what we do in our field is exciting and rewarding—informal learning via participatory sciences opens up so many diverse opportunities for people to explore our world. This means it also opens up just as many diverse opportunities to support that exploration through career paths, from volunteer coordinator to university researcher.  Yet this flexible and wide range of potential professions means it can sometimes be challenging to identify career goals and the right learning to help you meet those goals. Our friends at the Association of Science and Technology Centers (ASTC), alongside COSI’s Center for…
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2025 AAPS Career Forum

2025 AAPS Career Forum

Join us for an AAPS Career Forum on August 8th at 12pm ET. Our curated networking format involves pairing students and early career individuals with field leaders form a variety of sectors for one-on-one and small group conversations.  Join a museum researcher, environmental justice data scientist, Master Naturalist program director, state agency leader, evaluators, and hear their advice on the skills and experience needed to build careers in the participatory sciences. Register Here for the event, and let us know in the form what kinds of careers and topics you are interested in exploring. Registering early helps us make sure that…
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