Youth and Science Fairs: a study on the visit of adolescents to the Rio de Janeiro state science, technology and innovation Fair (FECTI)
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We investigated the experience of five groups of teenagers when visiting the Science, Technology and Innovation Fair of the State of Rio de Janeiro (FECTI), with the aim of analyzing the dynamics of visitors in this space, in particular, how they interacted with exhibitors, exhibition objects and among them. Data collection was performed with subjective cameras attached to one adolescent per group and the videos were analyzed with a research protocol that allows the most frequent types of conversations and interactions to be revealed during the visit. We identified that, on the one hand, visitors performed a participatory appropriation of the science fair, choosing and negotiating scientific themes of interest from previous experiences and knowledge about the group and involving creative efforts to understand, contribute and integrate with the dynamics of the fair; on the other hand, there were few cases in which it was possible to identify conversations in which they were engaged in science content in their relationship with exhibitors. These results can be an indicator of the need to think about other dynamics and formats of science fairs to integrate the visitors.
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