Retired CEO
Astronomical Society of the Pacific
San Francisco, California, United States
Linda Shore is the recently retired Chief Executive Officer of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific and the PI on a number of NSF awards, specifically the On-The-Spot Feedback Project (OTSF), a collaboration between educators and researchers at the ASP, Oregon State University, the Institute for Learning Innovation, and National Radio Astronomy Observatory. The OTSF project seeks to develop resources, training, and tools for scientists to use in outreach to make audience preconceptions and beliefs visible and thereby, their events more engaging. Due to the COVID pandemic, this project is now almost exclusively considering remote public engagement. Shore was also the PI of Project PLANET, an NSF-funded project studying the impact of a sequence of astronomy-focused storybooks, classroom activities, and interactive planetarium experiences on the science thinking skills of elementary school children. Prior to coming to the ASP, Linda Shore was a Senior Staff Scientist and Director of the Exploratorium Teacher Institute (1993-2014). Shore has also written numerous astronomy activity books for children, families, and astronomy enthusiasts.
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P4 - P4: "On-the-Spot Feedback: Getting and Using Feedback During Engagements with Public Audiences"
Friday, August 23, 2024
12:40 PM – 1:40 PM US PDT
