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Reflections on Youth Engagement

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Our research shows that using YCCS as a way to engage young people in thinking about complex interactions between human and nature can promote sophisticated reasoning, access to student’s funds of knowledge, and connection to place. In the blog posts below, read more about how educators are encouraging young people to grapple with the world around them.

Post Heidi Ballard Ryan Meyer

Youth-focused Community and Citizen Science

 

This blog post, authored by Ryan Meyer, Heidi Ballard, and Lila Higgins, originally appeared on the Blue Sky Funders Forum blog.

When do experiences with science lead young people to create change in their lives, landscapes, and communities? Consider this reflection from Rachel Anne Arias, a 12-year-old living in La Crescenta in Southern California:

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