Program areas at Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday weekly radio broadcastfor over 30 years, hosted by award-winning producer ira flatow, the radio program is at the core of Science Friday and includes 52 two-hour broadcasts (versioned to generate 104+ podcast episodes) annually. The radio show has provided our listeners with weekly opportunities to participate in enlightened discussions of contemporary issues in Science and technology research, policy, and news. The program's unique format and audience outreach has proven popular for first-hand interaction between listeners and scientists.
Science Friday education, experiences, and researchour education and outreach work creates educational programming, content, and experiences to invite communities, parents, educators, and the public to participate in Science through doing and learning. Our original lesson plans and activities have been included in dozens of national curriculum and out of school time activity repositories serving tens of millions of educators, including share my lesson, pbs learning media, american association of chemistry teachers, newsela, and code.org. Science Friday's events and experiences includes the hosting of monthly live and virtual learning events with experts, a national book club, citizen Science initiatives, field trips, and live discussions around the country. Science Friday's research initiatives include projects evaluating the influence of media on learning and engagement, equity and representation in media, and stem informal learning.
Science Friday digital content and websitescience Friday's digital platforms publish original reporting, newsletters, dispatches, book excerpts, as well as multimedia additions to radio segments. Our website, sciencefriday.com, is the public's one stop-shop for everything that Science Friday creates, including original longform reporting that gives readers a flavor of the challenges faced by scientists working to solve big problems. Our website receives 240,000 page views/month and we have a social following of over a million combined followers on facebook, instagram, twitter and tiktok.