Youth Today Post: Resources Available for Teen Science Cafés, Which Let Kids Get Hands-on
Cafés expose teens to all types of cool science
Impact of Teen Science Cafés on Scientists: Phase 1 Report
What do we know of the experiences & motivations of scientists participating in Teen Science Cafés & the impacts they experience within this distinctive type of PES (Public Engagement in Science)?
31 Flavors of Marketing a Teen Science Café
A list of to whom and where you might reach out when promoting a Teen Science Café.
Publication: Teens and Scientists Come Together at Science Cafés
Science cafés" bring scientists and the public together for relaxed conversation in restaurants and coffee shops. The Teen Science Café Network shows that the concept isn't just for adults.
Behavior Types and Characteristics: Strategies for Coping With People
This resource was developed by 4-H to help adult leaders better respond to the personalities of various people. Using these coping mechanisms can help you and the person better communicate and understand one another. Coping Strategies for Behavior Type and Characteristics [4-H]
Focus Group Report on Teen Leaders 2014
Teen leader focus groups were conducted at the five funded nodes in the Network, giving us significant insight into the impacts teens have on their program and the impacts the program have on teen leaders.
New Member Webinar 6: Evaluation
This webinar focuses on resources and methods that any Cafe leader can implement to evaluate and better understand the impacts their program is having on participants. It is designed to familiarize you with evaluation resources that are currently being used by nodes across the TSC Network and to provide an opportunity for new members to talk about the questions
Publication: Design Impacts of a Youth-directed Cafe Scientifique Program
This peer reviewed article describes the design, implementation and impacts of the Café Scientifique New Mexico program on the youth, scientists and staff participants. The article is based on three years of formative and summative evaluation of the Café model. Teens attending the program came from four diverse communities. Each group showed significant gains in 11 different areas, as compared
Getting Started Toolkit
This zipped folder is an assemblage of documents created and freely shared as examples by Members to support others' implementation of a Teen Science Café. You are free to revise and repurpose them for your own café. It includes promotional materials, Teen Leadership Team application forms, and much more! If you significantly revise or create new documents that would
A Café Scientifique for Teens
Article in American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Outreach