Volunteers make informal science possible. Virtually all not-for-profit science education organizations depend on unpaid help, from institutions as large as the Smithsonian’s Museum of Natural History to the smallest online advice-sharing websites. But volunteers don’t just happen – they have to be recruited, trained, supervised, and rewarded. This blog is a place to read about and share advice on the care and feeding of volunteers in informal science learning. Success stories and failures are both welcome. It is a project of Volunteers Try Science (VolTS), an initiative of the New York Hall of Science with support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
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Thursday, September 24th, 2009 4:33 pm
Written by: Brad Edmondson
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- Association of Science- Technology Centers
- Center for Science and Industry, Columbus, OH
- Exploratorium
- Museum of Life and Science, Durham, NC
- Museum of Science , Boston
- NSDL website
- National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC
- Sciencenter, Ithaca NY
- St. Louis Science Center
- TryScience.org
- World of Wonders, Lodi, CA
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I am impressed by the extent that museums, that have posted on this blog, use volunteers. I am also impressed by the descriptions of their efforts at training them.
I’d be interested in hearing how smaller museums use volunteers. I am sure there are many and I’d be interested to hear how they, with somewhat fewer resources than the ones above, handle the training of volunteer?
Martin
Thank you for this excellent blog. A colleague shared it with me and I am already jotting down ideas from the entries I’ve read in half an hour.
Julie