Closing Date: 12 July 2024
SciComm In Practice Fellowship for West Africans 2024
Background
The SciComm In Practice Fellowship is a partnership between STEMi Makers of Africa and SuperScientists to provide a dynamic three-month journey for beginning science communicators and scientists passionate about transforming science narratives and communicating the wonders of science.
Participating SciComm In Practice Fellowship fellows will engage and learn from leading members of the African science communication community. They will hone their communication skills and expand their professional networks. This fellowship is an extraordinary chance to engage with the science communication community and develop your ability to impact the general public.
The SciComm In Practice Fellowship will also empower 10 fellow to develop competitive skills that could be applied to translating technical research papers, science articles, etc.
Objectives
The goal of the fellowship is to develop African scientists and science communicators that are able to communicate their work, research and knowledge to the non-scientific community and young people. Science drives economies and policy, and is just fascinating. We want more people to see the importance and wonder of science and maybe become scientists themselves.
Fellowship candidates will develop skills in interviewing to capture the significance of a scientist’s work for the general public audience and translate technical research papers into well-developed and compelling content including press releases, blog articles, social media platforms and podcasts. Fellows will assist in developing a content calendar that will feature various mediums and cadence of content for the duration of the Fellowship term.
Application & Program Dates
- June 20: Application opens
- July 17: Application deadline
- July 30: Cohort 1 admissions decisions announced via email
- August 2: SciComm In Practice Fellowship commences
- October 1: Sci-project Commences
- November 30: Fellow Assessment & Completion
- Frequent Asked Questions (FAQs)
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What is the Fellowship about?
STEMi Makers of Africa is an international nonprofit organization that fosters inclusion, innovation and empowerment of educators with project-based learning resources so that they can prepare the next generation of Africans to effectively transition from education to employment as self-reliant problem-solvers for Africa’s economy. Through this non-profit, they have worked to refine over 6,500 Educator’s instructional pedagogy where students learned to solve ill-defined problems and made real-world connections to prepare them for STEAM careers. They also helped them set-up 371 STEMi Clubs across 19 countries.
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