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In Support of Idiosyncrasy

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It's not the extent to which they are participatory. But that's only part of the story. Funders like the NSF have encouraged science centers in particular to share their techniques and evaluations, which is fabulous but also leads to rampant and sometimes unthinking imitation. It's not their size or type or subject matter.

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Community Science Workshops and Shared Authorship of Space: Interview with Emilyn Green

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We received two rounds of NSF funding in the 1990s to expand. We received NSF funding for three years and then it cut off. For example, the Exploratorium is an extraordinarily participatory museum, but it''s not nearly as participatory as a Community Science Workshop. How are Workshop locations selected? It''s powerful.

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