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Community Science Workshops and Shared Authorship of Space: Interview with Emilyn Green

Museum 2.0

The Exploratorium is great, but it wasn''t super-accessible. We received two rounds of NSF funding in the 1990s to expand. We received NSF funding for three years and then it cut off. or free access to the dump to get materials. Once in the space, there are a bunch of design features that continue to be about access.

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Scratch: An Educational, Multi-Generational Online Community that Works

Museum 2.0

This is a HUGE value-added for people to join the community--they gain access to the code to every project on the site, and are encouraged to share what they've made with it. Everyone is instructed not to create usernames identical to their real names. Adults and Kids, All in One Place.