The ILI Progam described previously provided the inspriation for the development of a consortium of earthquake engineering educators. The National Science Foundation - Division of Undergraduate Education supported the efforts of this consortium in integrating earthquake engineering into the undergraduate curriculum. In addition, the following video demonstrates the principle behind base isolation, one technique which is used to protect buildings from earthquake loading. Base Isolation Demo- Quicktime, 3.0 MB Outreach Earthquake Awareness Weekend is held in Missouri the first week of February. The instructional shake table is used for demonstrations and experiments.
Kids are able to build their own structure for testing on the shake table.
For more detailed outreach activities, see the ILI Program web page.