Outreach represents the opportunity for entomologists to take our particular area of interest and apply it for people who may not normally spend their time thinking about insects. Outreach is not only fulfilling of its own right, it is a key ingredient towards making yourself marketable on both the academic and applied fronts, for both students and faculty/staff. Outreach can take numerous forms, from spending time talking to a class of third graders about monarch migration to participating in local meetings with area farmers to discuss rootworm concerns. Listed below are resources for finding the right outreach opportunity for you, as well as some of the regular events that go on in the University of Illinois community. But many other options abound that come up on shorter notice. Keep in touch with your department office to make full advantage of outreach events as they become available.
