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Conclusions and Implications, cont’d. Adult and young participants were focused on community issues and saw relationships between their neighborhoods and larger environmental issues. They were very motivated to engage with activities they saw as directly benefiting their communities. We see this as another important entrypoint and opportunity for UBG to leverage. Projects including at least some community focus can be especially effective in engaging these Latino communities. Programs will be more compelling if integrated into community issues, and if the relationship between project activities and benefit to the community is made clear. This study also revealed that participants had some expectations that may not be standard practice in citizen science projects, but which are nonetheless, important to address. These included the desire for program components that stretched their own learning about the topic at hand and some level of on-going communication with scientists. Participants felt that family participation was of major importance. A need for community also l clearly l l emerged d i in participants’ ti i t ’ emph emphasis i on opportunities oppo t nitie to participate in groups, whether that group includes family, peers, neighbors, and/or friends. Any program will need to effectively incorporate group participation. While engaging youth in citizen science projects may be more challenging than engaging adults, giving young respondents opportunities to participate as part of social groups, and stressing the community focus of such projects, can help. help Additionally, Additionally including youth in program development and including technology and even social networking components in programs may prove successful. Garibay Group │ Urban Bird Gardens Front-end Evaluation │ Summer 2009 31
Appendices Chicago History Museum Garibay Group │ Urban Bird Gardens Front-end Evaluation │ Summer 2009 32
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