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IGERT students engage in public outreach

Our IGERT trainees and affiliates remain actively involved in a wide range of public outreach efforts. These activities provide a service to the community, but also allow our students to hone their public communication skills. In total, our IGERT community has been involved with between 450 and 500 hours of community service over the past nine months. Our students have successfully completed indoor air demonstration experiments for UT Explore, a large and annual public open house on the University if Texas campus (over 100 members of the public visited our demonstrations), the UT Environmental Science Institute's Hot Science Cool Talks outeach lecture series (to over 500 K-12 science educators and their students), and the Minority Introduction to Engineering (MITE) Science camp (to 100 high school students). Our students have also developed indoor environmental science modules for high school science classes and worked with local teachers to incorporate these modules into their classes. They have also served as science fair judges at two local elementary schools. Finally, our IGERT students have developed an educational website for the public, a public service announcement on indoor air quality implications of cooking, and an educational video based on a detective (Dick Radonsky - played by Dr. Glenn Morrison of the Missouri University of Science and Technology) who explores a mysterious indoor environmental illness. You can view several outreach products at http://www.indoorquality.org/


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