The NSCORT Education and Outreach Program is designed to engage audiences through concepts and technologies highlighted in the NSCORT research program. The outreach program is composed of three thrust areas. These areas are technical outreach (technology transfer, presentations to industry, etc.), educational outreach (graduate, undergraduate, K-12), and public outreach (museums, state fairs, etc.).

Several highlights of our outreach efforts are:

MarsBound! Interactive Game
Marsbound! Mission to the Red Planet is a complete stand-alone activity originating at Arizona State University and adapted for the web by Purdue University. Click here to play!

Summer Fellowship Program
We are pleased to announce that seven undergraduate students from Howard and Alabama A&M University have been selected for our 2nd Annual Summer Fellowship Program. Participants will spend eight weeks working with faculty mentors from Purdue University, Howard, and Alabama A&M Univeristy. The program will end with a Student Symposium held at Purdue University on August 2-3, 2004. The Symposium will include presentations from the undergraduate fellows and NSCORT graduate students from all our partner universities.

Key Learning Community Project
The NSCORT has formed a partnership with a Key Learning Community in Indianapolis, Indiana. The collaboration will focus on developing successful 9th-12th grade outreach strategies for NSCORT. The overall goal of the project is motivate students to pursue careers in science, technology, and engineering.

School Program
This pilot program will organize and nationally disseminate curriculum for a standards/inquiry based after-school program focusing on the science and engineering that is the basis of the ALS NSCORT research program.

Outreach Program Leader
Julia Hains-Allen
Outreach Coordinator
Phone: 765.496.6694 or 765.496.6545
E-Mail: hains@purdue.edu