A Youth Advisory Research Board Model for Climate Impact Education
2020–2023
Project Description
Youth Lead the Way engaged 15 youth to create a Youth Advisory Research Board (YARB) at OMSI. These youth honed their skills, advised on projects, developed creative activities to communicate about climate impact, and engaged the public as climate impact educators.
Research on this project led to the creation of a theory and evidence based localized YARB model that identifies factors of the OMSI YARB that empowered the youth to engage in climate impact education as ISL (informal STEM learning) professionals.
Resources & Research
Presentations
Herrán, C. & Randol, S. M. (2023, May 22 – 26). Supporting youth empowerment through social science research preparation. [Poster presentation]. Annual conference of the Citizen Science Association, Tempe, AZ, United States.
Reilly, Rebecca. (2023, May 5 – 6). Including teen voices in non-education museum departments [Professional development workshop]. Sciencenter, Ithaca, NY.
Randol, S. M. & Herrán, C. (2022, November 1). Evaluating Youth Perceptions of Climate Action with Personal Meaning Mapping. [Conference presentation]. ASTC Virtual 2022.
Reilly, R., Barrientos, F., & Lyday, C. (2022, October 6-9). Looking Ahead: Museums and Youth Collaborating in Climate Justice [Conference Session]. 2022 WMA Annual Meeting, Portland.
Shagott, T. (2022, September 12-15). Youth Lead the Way: Museums Learning With and From Youth to Advance Climate Action [Conference Session]. 2022 ASTC Annual Conference, Pittsburgh.
Lyday, C., Hüttmann, I., & Reilly, R. (2022, May 19-22). Youth Lead the Way: How Museums and Youth can Collaborate to Advance Climate Justice. [Poster presentation]. 2022 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo, Boston.
Youth Created Deliverables
“Be the Change” Board game on creating climate friendly policy change
Atlas Fell: Youth-curated Climate Art show
“Climate story” interviews with community leaders
Youth Advising Projects
Developing earthquake safety activities for ShakeAlert®/USGS
Researching sustainable exhibit materials
Waterfront Education Park research
Natural Sciences Hall visioning
Revising signage and activities for OMSI labs including Chemistry, Life, Earth, and Physics
Exhibit Development Advising for Creatividad silvestre | Wild Creativity—Biomimicry transforming the world
Collaborators
Partner
Sciencenter, Ithaca NY
Funder
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. DRL-2005678. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
