The video was very engaging. It made me want to watch the full-length episodes. Did the project include research on how the videos have been used (e.g., by teachers) and any impacts resulting from videos? I am very interested in the findings as well as the research methods that can be used in a context like this.

The excerpt aired here nicely demonstrates the girls’ interest in the data collection and how engaging they found it. Is there also follow-up to help them see the bigger picture of the scientific investigation – how the data is analyzed, and what publications might result from such work?

It seems that this series could be used to good effect by science teachers, in sparking students’ interest in participating in these or similar projects. Do you have reports of such use, whether organized by your project or otherwise? Perhaps in some follow-up project?

I am the evaluator for the Citizen SciGirls project. This month, with NSF support, Citizen SciGirls is launching six episodes and two games to encourage viewer/user interest in citizen science. Check out PBSKids.org/SciGirls. This spring/summer, we are collaborating with FrogWatch USA to evaluate the contribution of SciGirls online videos and games to girls’ interest in citizen science, feelings of self-efficacy, and understanding of the value and features of citizen science projects. The evaluation report should be available on informalscience.org around November 1, 2015. Thanks for your interest. Barbara Flagg, Ed.D., Director, Multimedia Research

I think that this is video is well done. It really caught my interest that this project is broadening participation by engaging young girls/women that are also ethnically diverse. Can you please specifically describe your efforts on recruiting young women of ethnically diverse backgrounds? I also am wondering if you are expanding the project or program or if there is a follow up to include much larger groups of students. Can you describe if this is happening and also describe the challenges that you faced in expanding the program? Thanks you!

Each half-hour episode features a different group of girls. Once we find a topic and location, we cast girls through schools and afterschool programs, placing a high priority on diversity.

There are now a total of 28 episodes across the breadth of STEM. Please visit SciGirlsCONNECT.org or scigirls.org to see more videos, and let us know what you think.

I love seeing the energy and enthusiasm of these girls exploring nature and recording data! When I was their age, I had not heard of anything called citizen science but I would have loved it. Thanks for sharing this with kids today! I am looked forward to this Wednesday’s episode on Feathered Friends!

This was excellent. REAL girls and REAL reactions. The girls got more focused/serious as the project went on. Inspiring.

Very fun to watch!!! One of the things I learned in a project where we used videos like this was that it was worthwhile creating a database of snippets that are indexed according to their usefulness so that when kids are working on something similar, they can easily find and rewatch whatever they had seen in a video previously. We also were then able to attach other resources they might need to solve a problem or work on a design project. Unfortunately, I never wrote this up. ;-( But I think with an appropriately organized case library of examples and snippets, you could get even more out of these videos.

I really like the idea of a whole group of citizen science projects that kids can choose from. Is this what you are building on?

One more question. Why only girls?

This looks like a great project. Its incredible how much you were able to cover and convey in such a short amount of time.

I want to be a SciGirl(s, how awesome is this to get these girls to learn so many scientific lesson by doing such a cool project and actually engaging with other scientists. Then engagement and enthusiasm of learning was great. I am highly impressed by the work of SciGirls, great job.