SASSA is collaborating with the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory to revamp one of our modules to better understand and communicate the intersection of science and society when it comes to flooding.

We are looking for volunteers on the following days to help save a fictional community as part of SASSA in the Classroom: Tuesday, April 30; Wednesday, May 1; or Thursday, May 2!

Any way you slice it, hands-on learning is effective!

SASSA’s PREP volunteers have been busy in the classroom introducing some of our exciting modules to students at a local middle school.

SASSA in the Classroom volunteer and PREP participant, Michael Murphy, will be spending his summer working as a science communication intern with Craters of the Moon National Monument in Idaho. Read about how participating in SASSA helped prepare him for this opportunity!

Recently, some of SASSA’s founding members and teachers with whom they have collaborated in the classroom had the opportunity to publish a chapter about their research and experiences. The chapter highlights the history of SASSA in the Classroom and how the program has succeeded in bringing together community members, teachers, researchers, and students. While we […]

Samantha Porter has been a devoted volunteer since SASSA’s inception. In addition to being active in our program, she is using her research and technological skillset to innovate visitor experiences at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA). Her project, Riddle Mia This, blends social needs, art and history, and technology, and offers an excellent example […]

The Anthropology Department at the University of Minnesota has been a great supporter of SASSA from the beginning. Without them, we would never have been able to get our program up and running! Many of our wonderful undergraduate and graduate volunteers have come from this department as well and we now have an opportunity to […]

Science and Social Studies Adventures is doing what we do best — returning to the classroom to present our engaging modules to a new group of students! We are looking for volunteers — college students, parents, community members — to help us present these modules to students at a local middle school in March and […]

Several of SASSA’s board and staff members have chapters in the new book, Public Engagement and Education: Developing and Fostering Stewardship for an Archaeological Future (hardcover and eBook available now!). Edited by SASSA’s Katherine Erdman, this volume explores different approaches researchers may take to get all ages interested in archaeology as well as how to […]

SASSA will participate in Give to the Max Day on November 14th, 2019. Read more to find out how you can give and how your support will help us thrive!