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GOAL: Develop a productive working partnership with the NEES operations awardee and its partnerorganizations for all aspects of operations and participate in education and outreach activitiescoordinated by NEES operations awardee.5.1 EOT CollaborationThe site’s designated EOT coordinator is Wes W. The site collaborates with NEEScomm via theirAWP,attendance at the NEEScomm monthly meeting, at the NEES annual meeting,Local EOT activities at UIUC include the Engineering open house and Lab tours. These activities occurusually around one per quarter.The site includes underrepresented groups in it’s EOT activities. Examples include:i. Outreach to Rantoul,ii. Campus middle school,iii. SWIE partnership with outreach in public schools,iv. SBE partnership with outreach in under representative populations, andv. Multicultural Engineering Recruitment for Graduate Education.Partnerships with local schools include the local community college, University School, Girls onlyhighschool.The site participates in Network EOT activities. Examples include:i. Video best practices,ii. Small scale structural buildings for classroom,iii. SIMCORE workshop IL,iv. KRYPTON workshop MN,v. REU students, andvi. YRS for REU.The site evaluates effectiveness and quality of the EOT activities from feedback from classes. The sitedoes not have assessment data, but they are working on it. The site currently does not have diversity datafrom EOT activities, but they are working on it. Metrics for EOT activities include:i. Number of students attending open house,ii. Number of students that do MYOE, andiii. Hits on YouTube Channel (NEESATUIUC)EOT items uploaded by the site to NEESacademy include:i. Video of best practices,ii. Lego structure (to be submitted), andiii. Physical Model for classroom demonstrations (to be submitted).The site has included the following items in their FY12 AWP.20