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Raising awareness within the department about existing outreach opportunities online, and in the Greater Boston Area. This will be mostly done by updating our department webpage with a comprehensive list of initiatives, and sending regular updates and calls for volunteers on behalf of those initiatives.
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Liaise with local schools, particularly in our nearest neighborhood Roxbury, to bring more children into the department, and more faculty, graduate students and postdocs into classrooms.
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Understand the major hurdles impeding more active outreach within the department so we can address them effectively. This will mostly be done through a comprehensive survey.
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Improve our science communication skills with the wider public, and particularly the K-12 age group to make our outreach efforts more effective and science understandable for all age groups. This will be done by arranging workshops with communication specialists and (potentially) a Science Slam encouraging scientists from all over Boston to share their science with the wider public.