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  • What’s a Teen Science Café?

    Teen Science Cafés are a free, fun way for teens to explore the big advances in science and technology affecting their lives. Teens and local scientists, engineers, and inventors engage in lively conversations and activities to explore a topic deeply.

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Teen Science Café provides interactive education for FoCo students

An article for the Rocky Mountain Collegian in Fort Collins, CO.

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

Presenter Guidance from Café Scientifique New Mexico

Guidance to presenters about structuring their program to the teen audience. Cafe Scientifique New Mexico Guidelines for Presenters

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
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