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08/15/01 to 10/31/02:

In addition to the things described below, this year we increased
recruitment of students from underrepresented groups for our summer
workshops. This included direct mailings and emails to over 100 HBCU
institutions.  Despite this concentrated effort, we had only one
participant from an HBCU at our workshop - the same level of
participation as in previous years.

We also approached a local high school about creating a program
whereby students could participate in computer-related research
with our research group. See:

 http://www.isip.msstate.edu/publications/courses/sa_xxxx

Unfortunately, nothing concrete resulted from this interaction.

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08/15/00 to 08/14/01:

In addition to the workshops and our active recruitment of
undergraduates from underrepresented groups described below, we also
participate in recruitment efforts for local area students. We
recently participated in several meetings with local area high school
students intended to increase their interest in engineering
undergraduate education. Our public domain software project attracted
significant interest.

We also maintain an active presence on the web and have advised
numerous students about speech technology-related projects.
One of the most impressive included some discussions with
a sixth grader interested in doing a science fair project
on speech recognition.

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08/15/99 to 08/14/00:

 - Workshops:

   As mentioned elsewhere, the two workshops we host annually are a major
   component of our outreach activities. Based on our attendance lists,
   we seem to be achieving our goal of attracting people new to the details
   of speech recognition technology.

 - Undergraduates:

   We have been successful at recruiting more underrepresented groups
   to work in entry-level capacities as undergraduate hourly workers.

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08/15/98 to 08/14/99:

We normally invite high school students to participate in our research
as part of a special program created with a local math and sciences
school in our area. In the first year of this project, we had one high
school student spend a semester programming a Java application. He was
an outstanding student who actually produced useful code during his
tenure in our group - one of our better experiences with high school
students.