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Mary Ann Steiner mhs19@pitt.edu LRDC, 1st floor |
Graduate Student Researcher, UPCLOSE
University of Pittsburgh, candidate for Ph.D. in Cognitive Studies, Fall 2007-present
Program Director for Informal Science Education in the Directorate for Education and Human Resources, 2005-2007
Director, Youth Science Center, Science Museum of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota, 1995-2007
Youth Program Developer and Manager, Science Museum of Minnesota, Saint Paul. 1988-1995
M.Ed University of Minnesota, 2003
B.A., Painting, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson NY, 1986
Association of Science and Technology Centers, 1990-present
Saint Paul neighborhood after school program networks 1995- 2005
Midwest Youth ALIVE! (MYA!), finance chair 1996-2005
Irish Museum Association (IMA), 2003-2005
Minnesota School Age Care Alliance, MN 2001-2005
South East Learning Council, Minneapolis, MN, 2003-2005
Youth ALIVE! A national network of museum-based youth programs 1992-1999
My work has been grounded in science museum youth and community programs. I am interested in how science and technology rich local resources can best be tapped by community audiences to support rich learning environments. My initial research questions focus on what combinations of organizational structure, people, resources and interests are necessary to create sustainable and meaningful science/technology learning on the community side and strategies for resource sharing on the science organization side. The nature of the collaboration and how all the participating organizations change in their capacity and activity are of particular interest.
NSF ESI 0515572 Teenaged designers of Learning Places, Saint Louis Science Center and Science Museum of Minnesota
NSF ESI 0323155: ITEST MYBEST. Mentored Youth Building Employable Skills Through Technology
Public Achievement, Belfast, Northern Ireland, Civic Engagement and youth in Museums, 2003-2005
Urban Network, Planning Team, 2002-2003
Lucent Technologies: Field School — youth paleontology program, 2000-2003
Orlando Science Center, Youth Center Planning, Orlando, Florida, 1994
Velure Roholt, R. and M.A. Steiner, " Not Your Average Workplace: -the Youth Science Center, Science Museum of Minnesota. Curator 48/2, 141-1577, April 2005
VeLure Roholt, R., M. Baizerman, and M.A. Steiner, Museum Development, Youth Development: Examples from a Flourishing Site. Museum Ireland 12, 48-56, 2002
ASTC presentation 2004, Measuring Success in Museum Youth Programs
Northern Ireland Discussion facilitator 2004, Youth Work in Contested SpacesASTC presentations 2003, Scale, the Big and Small of it; Native Science Seminar; and Your Responsibility in Creating an Inclusive Work Environment
Irish Museum Association pre-conference workshop 2003 Youth and Museums
ASTC presentations 2002, Pedagogy of the Oppressed Seminar
ASTC presentations 2001, Enriching Lives, Youth + Science = Learning
ASTC presentations 2000, Putting Good Ideas into Practice, After School Clubs
YSC program presentations to delegations from the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation Tokyo 2002 & 2005, Sichuan Science and Technology Association (SAST) 2002.
