Societal Impact Partners

Target Audience: All Ages

The Cooperative Extension System is a partnership of federal, state, and local governments to serve the 3,000 counties across the country. It is an integration of teaching, research, and public service that enables the system to respond to critical and emerging issues with research-based, unbiased information. With its network of county offices and state universities, Extension can deliver educational programs at the grassroots to the national level. Nearly every USU college houses Extension specialists.

Target Audience: Extension Professionals

The Extension Foundation is an interactive learning environment where university content providers can gather and produce new educational and information resources on emerging issues and technology.

Target Audience: Native American students enrolled at the USU Blanding campus

Native American undergraduates at the USU Eastern Blanding campus spend approximately 6 weeks at the Logan campus rotating through STEM research labs (~1 week per lab), participating in specific research activities. The goal of the program is to enable students to see careers in STEM fields and fire up their imaginations.

Target Audience: All Ages

Utah State University College of Science offers Science Unwrapped, a free, public presentation series for inquiring minds of all ages. The monthly, family friendly events, offered during the academic year, feature varied scientific topics in a relaxed, entertaining format. Science Unwrapped guests receive hands-on instruction at displays after the presentations.

Target Audience: All Ages

The Transforming Communities Institute partners with Utahns to co-create knowledge and solutions addressing social issues that matter to our communities. They coordinate opportunities for faculty, staff, and students to engage meaningfully with communities and organizations and conduct research and solution-building on social issues that are prioritized by residents, practitioners, and leaders.

Target Audience: All Ages

The mission of the Center for Community Engagement (CCE) is to develop active citizens through community engagement and scholarship. Furthering USU’s land-grant mission, the CCE empowers students to explore civic identity, develop leadership skills, and address community-identified needs, locally and around the world.

AggiePulse is USU’s online platform used to learn about opportunities to engage with the greater community.

Target Audience: Grade 7

USU STARS! is a federally funded program that is designed to help students prepare for and succeed in college. Schools and community partners team up to provide services to students to help them succeed in school now and succeed in college in the future.

Target Audience: Grades K-12

Agriculture in the Classroom is a nationwide program designed to help students develop an awareness and understanding of our food system, and how agriculture impacts our daily lives. Utah Agriculture in the Classroom (AITC) provides training and resources for teachers and pre-service teachers to contextualize their curriculum in the areas of science, social studies, nutrition, and career and technical education. Resources have been developed to meet State Standards. All of Utah AITC resources are classroom-ready and can be accessed online.

Target Audience: Grades 1-8

The Utah 4-H Aggie Adventures and Summer Camps for Kids are educational day camps for children and youths in grades 1-8 in Utah. All camps emphasize hands-on learning and explore such subjects as archaeology, robotics, art, history, astronomy, and more.

The 4-H Teens Reaching Youth (TRY) Program provides teams of three to four teens and their adult coach with in-depth training in effective teaching skills and a specific 4-H curriculum. Once trained, teams teach the curriculum to younger youth.