Sherry Hsi

BSCS Science Learning

Collaborator

Sherry Hsi is a principal scientist at BSCS Science Learning. For over 20 years, she has brought her R&D leadership to the creative design and study of K-12 learners with an emphasis on equity, technology, and hands-on making in science and engineering. She has developed award winning mobile apps, hands-on exhibits, craft-based STEM kits, online courses, and technology-enhanced curricula in close design partnership with K-12 teachers, science centers, afterschool programs, and museums. Her design-based research explores how learning environments, facilitation, and materials can be purposefully designed to support science engagement, interest, and deeper learning for a diversity of learners across settings.

Prior to BSCS, she was Executive Vice President of the Concord Consortium. She also served as a director of research at the Lawrence Hall of Science and the Exploratorium and was a postdoc with Bob Tinker. Sherry has designed and studied mobile inquiry, informal learning programs, science learning media, and educational apps and helped create Howtosmile.org, the TechHive studio program, and the AR sandbox exhibit. Sherry holds multiple degrees from the University of California at Berkeley.