Communicating science -- what is it, how it is performed, and why it is important -- to the larger community in which that science takes place is crucial. For that reason, I have been engaged in several forms of outreach over the past several years aimed at spreading the word about what we do as “high energy particle physicists” and why we find it so exciting!

1. •Enrico Fermi Institute Summer Interns Program: The HEP Group of the Enrico Fermi Institute hosted 17 7th graders (ranging from 11-13 years old) for the 10th annual "Enrico Fermi Summer Interns Program" (established in 2005 by Prof. Mark Oreglia). These students come to the Institute for 1 week of experiments, lectures, and demonstrations in physics at the beginning of July. Both myself and Professor David Schmitz directed the program along with Mary Heintz from the Electronics Development Group and four undergraduate Program Assistants from the College. The week included building DIY circuits for a magnetometer experiment using the Arduino platform, a trip to the Science Storms exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry on Nikola Tesla's birthday, and in-class demonstrations of magnetic fields, forces, and their relationship to electricity. Each and every student built his or her own magnetic field strength measurement device using individual magnetometer circuits from Honeywell and Arduino micro-computers. They learned the concepts behind the Web, and how to edit their own HTML page in order to share their own stories and experiences from the week, as well as to host the results of their experiments in order to describe to the world what they accomplished during the week.
   

2. •UChicago Society of Physics Students Lectures: I have had the good fortune to be able to give two presentations to the Chicago Society of Physics Students (SPS). The first was a general introduction to working at the Large Hadron Collider in April 2014. The second was an introduction to the screening of Particle Fever in October 2014.
   

3. •“Smashing Protons: First Physics at the LHC:” SLAC Public Lecture Series with approximately 300 people in attendance (including one Boy Scout Troop). Nov. 2010.
   

4. •Joint SLAC Users’ Organization (SLUO) Fermilab Users’ Executive Committee (UEC) and US LHC Users’ Organization (USLUO) trip to Washington, DC.
   

5. •“Introduction to experimental techniques in particle physics for the LHC:” Bratislava Summer School, Theoretical Tools for LHC Physics.
   

6. •“The Nature of the Universe” Teaching assistant for the Stanford University first year undergraduate introductory course to science and modern physics.