%0 Journal Article
%T Keeping the Flame Lit: The Value of the Long
%A Amelia Rodr¨ªguez-Pinedo
%A Astrid Pliego-Madero
%A Bertha Michel-Sandoval
%A David Gonz¨¢lez-S¨¢nchez
%A Dayan Bernal-Miranda
%A Javier P¨¦rez-Padilla
%A Miguel Garc¨ªa-Guerrero
%A Omar Rosales-Valadez
%A Paulina Pati£¿o-De-Santiago
%A Roberto Aranda-Guti¨¦rrez
%A Vianey Raudales-Hern¨¢ndez
%A Viridiana Esparza-Manrique
%J Science Communication
%@ 1552-8545
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1075547018814845
%X Science clubs are programs that allow people (especially children and youngsters) to meet regularly outside of school programs and engage with science and technology activities. Clubs encourage participants to foster attitudes, capabilities, and knowledge related to STEM fields with the goal of promoting interest and passion about science. As such programs provide big opportunities to improve the impact of public communication of science activities, it is really important to look at the impacts of such programs. Quark Group runs the Children Science Club since 2002, and up to 2016, it developed science recreation activities with 711 children and young people. In order to establish the influence the club had on its participants, we conducted a survey that provided 244 answers. This article presents the findings of this follow-up study
%K science clubs
%K extracurricular science programs
%K effects of science popularization
%K science recreation programs
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1075547018814845