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Community for STEM Engagement

Learn About the NISE Network

The National Informal STEM Education Network brings people together to engage in STEM, understand our world, and build a better future for everyone.

Learn About the NISE Network

Upcoming Events

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Register for upcoming free online workshops at Tuesdays 2pm Eastern

• Tuesday, March 12, 2024
Practices, Principles, and Programming for Engaging Blind and Low Vision Audiences

•Tuesday, April 30, 2024
Wildfires & Air Quality - Providing a Relevant Portal to Get Audiences Invested in the Conversation

• All of our past workshops are recorded
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Solar Eclipse - Monday, April 8, 2024

An annular solar eclipse will be experienced from Texas to Maine; all of North America will have at least a partial solar eclipse
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Big STEM Celebrations

Resources for STEM celebrations and holidays all year round including:
• Brain Awareness Week (March)
• Lunar Eclipse (March 24-25)
• Solar Eclipse (April 8)
• Earth Day (April)
• DNA Day (April 25)

NISE Network partner organizations engage

over 15 million members of the public in high quality STEM educational programming each year.

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The NISE Network fosters collaboration and draws on the collective strengths of our partners.

NISE Network partners work together to activate and broaden lifelong STEM engagement that helps learners achieve their goals. We built the Network by doing work together, and that’s also how we achieve our impact. Hundreds of organizations and thousands of professionals and volunteers around the country collaborate to create and use our resources and practices--reaching millions of people each year.

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The most important thing about the NISE Network is the capacity to partner with other institutions. Actually doing work together creates a deeper level of partnership and exchange. It’s what Network has really contributed to the field.

RAY VANDIVER

Tulsa Children’s Museum Discovery Lab

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Learn about upcoming opportunities, events, ways to grow professionally, and inspiring stories from network partners.