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ECE participated in the LLE’s 2024 Broad Exposure to Science and Technology (BEST) Research Program, which engages underrep-resented Rochester Central School District high school students and teachers in various aspects of STEM. Prof. Heilemann and Tre DiPassio (PhD ’23) organized two days of ECE programming. On the first day, Heilemann, DiPassio, ECE PhD students Ben Thompson and Jenna Rutowski, and Yunji Kim (AME ’25) traveled to East High School to give lectures and demonstrations on audio, acoustics, and signal processing. The next day, the BEST students headed to the River Campus to learn about cutting edge research in the AME labs/studios, the Howard lab, and the Doyley lab. The BEST students were also able to connect with the ECE REU students over lunch and learn about this valuable program. ECE’s first year of collaboration with the LLE BEST program was hugely successful. We are excited to have kicked off this community outreach and look forward to expanding our participation next summer. Marco Romo-Gonzalez, LLE engineer and deputy diversity manager, commented “Though it was not a competition, many of the students ranked your demos as the best, or as the highlight of the program! We all just really enjoyed your contributions.” Many thanks to all involved!