Ongoing initiatives

About the 2025 initiatives

The Science In Vivo project supports teams across the U.S. as they find new ways to add science experiences into existing events and community gatherings. The project asks teams to go beyond business-as-usual by integrating these experiences into the cultural context and social setting of local celebrations. This active participation is called Situated Engagement.

From 2017 to 2020, the project involved in-depth experimentation, with observers traveling to see teams in action and provide constructive critiques. Please visit the original, media-rich website for Science In Vivo to explore this foundational work in Situated Engagement.

The project is currently bringing together cohorts of teams exploring the use of Situated Engagement with their own local action. Find out more about these current initiatives below.

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St. Pete Science In Vivo

For St.Pete Science In Vivo's first situated engagement, Lauren Bell (also organizer of the St.Petersburg Science Festival) picked the Tampa Bay Collard Green Festival for the opportunity to weave in science at a long-standing cultural event in Central Florida. From pocket microscopes to collard greens germinating and more, festival attendees of all ages got to see this tasty and nutritious vegetable from a completely new perspective.
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