The RESCUE project supports a wide range of education and outreach activities. Our work with individual experts and organizations in the areas of emergency management, preparedness, and crisis response helps RESCUE researchers to better assess practitioner needs, and in return our interdisciplinary team's research provides valuable tools and insights which build towards field-deployable technologies.

Our education and outreach activities include:

• Courses for students at participating universities
• K-12 outreach programs
• Community emergency management/disaster drills
• Regular meetings and seminars on research relating to disaster management
• Workshops for the broader scientific community
• Interactions with Community Advisory Board and Response Organizations
• Student exchange/internship programs

In addition to these specific activities, RESCUE's infrastructure directly supports education and outreach. Our multidisciplinary research facility exposes students to knowledge and expertise from fields as diverse as computer science, sociology, civil engineering, and disaster research. To maximize impact and to catapult other research efforts, we continue to share data, simulations, testbeds, and software acquired/developed as part of an effort to reach out to the larger scientific community and the local communities around the country where the partner institutions are located. We have also created and are continuously adding to a digital online media library that grants 24-hour access to informative and educational materials on information technology and crisis response. By linking students and researchers from a number of disciplines, emergency management experts, and practitioners in the field, RESCUE's network of education and outreach activities promotes innovation and integration in the key areas of emergency management, disaster research, and crisis response.