Undergraduate´s partnership with K-12

This paper focuses on outreach programs for grades K through 12. The KU outreach program, which has functioned for ten years, has reached thousands of K-12 students through the past ten years of its existence. The wellknown semi-annual KU activity, "Workshop + Students = Fun + Success," involves hundreds of undergraduate students in thoughtfully prepared, hands-on, cross-interdisciplinary presentations supervised by faculty. Those presentations often focus on stochastic theory and control systems and its applications. The importance and benefits for undergraduates from this kind of outreach activity is discussed. Examples of successful REU research team projects in mathematics, science, and technology done by undergraduates and junior high and high school students are provided. A short report from the first NSF workshop and its follow-up activities for high school teachers of mathematics and science on "Ideas and Technology of Control Systems" is presented. Some recommendations for future activities are made.