How should outreach be defined for EI?

• A. Activities that occur only inside the team's school.
• B. Activities that communicate FIRST/engineering to the broader community beyond the team, including schools, clubs, libraries, and events.
• C. Only internal training sessions.
• D. Activities that occur exclusively online.

Answer: (B)

Outreach in this context means sharing FIRST and engineering with people outside the team and actively engaging the broader community—schools, clubs, libraries, events, and other groups. This broad external engagement is what expands the impact of the program, inspiring others to learn about STEM and FIRST, and inviting new participants to get involved. That perspective captures activities like demonstrations at a library, STEM nights at schools, community workshops, or partnering with local organizations to run events, not just things that stay inside the team or happen only online. Internal-only training or events confined to the team don’t reach the wider audience that outreach aims to influence, and online-only efforts, while valuable, don’t alone fulfill the goal of signaling engineering and FIRST to the broader community.