Education and Outreach Objectives
- Engage the general public through informational resources, compelling deliverables, and opportunities to participate that highlight the importance of biodiversity collections and digitization.
- Develop educational resources for K-12 students related to digitization and biodiversity.
- Create and foster public participation activities.
- Foster project awareness within the professional community.
- Identify target audiences, including university students, downstream user groups and other stakeholders, and assess their needs.
- Identify downstream partners and stakeholders, document their needs, and execute outreach activities to meet those needs.
- Coordinate public outreach programming.
- Measure the geographic distribution of the impact and success of intended learning outcomes.
- Identify and seek additional funding sources for spin-off E&O projects that promote the mission of iDigBio.