Achievement

Our IGERT trainees and affiliates are 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 and to work as interdisciplinary teams in public outreach activities. In total, our IGERT students have been involved with over 250 hours of community service over the past year. Our students have successfully completed indoor air demonstration projects 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), the Minority Introduction to Engineering (MITE) Science camp (to 100 high school students), and the Women in Engineering Program. Our IGERT students also judged over 100 science projects at a local elementary school.