  The scale and scope of the physics studied at the Auger Observatory offer
significant opportunities for original outreach work. Education, outreach, and
public relations of the Auger collaboration are coordinated in a task of its
own whose goals are to encourage and support a wide range of efforts that link
schools and the public with the Auger scientists and the science of cosmic
rays, particle physics, and associated technologies. This report focuses on the
impact of the collaboration in Mendoza Province, Argentina, as: the Auger
Visitor Center in Malargue that has hosted over 29,000 visitors since 2001, the
Auger Celebration and a collaboration-sponsored science fair held on the
Observatory campus in November 2005, the opening of the James Cronin School in
Malargue in November 2006, public lectures, school visits, and courses for
science teachers. As the collaboration prepares the proposal for the northern
Auger site foreseen to be in southeast Colorado, plans for a comprehensive
outreach program are being developed in parallel, as described here.
