Education and outreach are an important part of the Alabama Fire Ant Management Program.  Education and outreach increase the public's general knowledge of fire ant biology and management.  The fire ant exhibit has drew crowds at the Alabama National Fair, the National Peanut Festival, Ag Roundup, the Southeastern Agricultural Exposition, the Louise Kreher Forest Ecology Preserve, the Oxbow Meadows Insect Festival, Callaway Gardens' Insect Encounters Weekend, Montgomery Zoo's Earth Day Safari, School Day at the Baldwin County Fair, and in 2002 made its way to the Fifth Annual Food and Agricultural Science Exhibition and Reception at Washington, D. C.  This exhibit has also been used in workshops that train middle school science teachers.  These workshops train teachers how to conduct simple fire ant projects and then incorporate these projects into their classroom. Projects like these increase student's knowledge of science, math, and fire ants.