Interactive science communicators make work fun

When Jonathan Frederick was in elementary school, he would often tag along with his father, a software engineer, to the local science museum. As his father helped the programmers there with computerised exhibits after work, Frederick frolicked around the empty building for several hours at night. ‘It absolutely made me fall in love with museums,’ says Frederick, who has worked as a science communicator at several museums and is now the director of the North Carolina Science Festival. 

Some science enthusiasts fall in love with research and devote their careers to academic pursuits. Others, like Frederick, find meaning in making the subject accessible to people. Interactive science communicators do important work. For them, though, that work is also endless fun.