At the outset FLEET set itself ambitious goals around outreach, driven by each member doing 20 hours outreach each year, from Director to PhD student.

By putting in over 7600 hours of outreach-focused work at over 800 outreach events, members were successful in reaching a staggering 74,000 students, teachers and public in face-to-face events, in the process:

• Improving public awareness of FLEET research areas
• Making quantum science more accessible, and
• Raising awareness of FLEET’s key challenge, the unsustainable energy consumption of electronics.

FLEET was able to improve scientific literacy and understanding of FLEET science amongst primary and secondary students, and improve the capability of teachers to teach FLEET-relevant physics (see the case study).

By putting a diverse, personal face to science for students and public, encouraged student participation in science and physics in senior high school and through to university, in particular for students from marginalised groups in STEM.

In the process, Centre members developed their own communication and engagement skills, and learned the impact of their research outside of academia.

FLEET developed methods to evaluate the impact of outreach activities, which were shared with other Centres (see the case study).