Programs of the Service Center

Aggie Leadership Academy
Learn leadership and self-improvement techniques during an overnight or evening experience. You'll have the opportunity to make new friends and put your new skills to use by planning and participating in a service project.

Alternative Breaks
Plan and participate in service trips to other communities (usually during winter, spring or weekend breaks). This year's big Spring Break trip will be to build houses for Habitat for Humanity in Hawaii.

Best Buddies
Build lasting friendships with community members who have mental disabilities through monthly activities and weekly contact.

College Bound
Motivate and inspire elementary school children to prepare for higher education. Mentor elementary school children by teaching five lessons to the class and hosting them on a guided tour of the University.

Community Partnerships
Participate in community programs such as the Boy's and Girl's Club, Common Ground, Head Start, Hispanic Center, Whittier Tutoring Center, Lifetime Learning Center, and English Learning Center.

Friends of the Elderly
Being involved with Adopt-a-Grandparent is a win/win situation. As you visit your grandparent once a week, you will gain a new elderly friend.

Project Pals
Pair off with community youth ages 6-15 to provide a positive role model in a big brother/big sister type environment.

S.T.A.R.
(Students Teaching Arithmetic and Reading) Work one on one or in small groups with elementary school children in classrooms or after school programs to help improve their math and or reading skills.

S.T.E.P.
(Students Together Ending Poverty) Educate students on issues such as poverty and homelessness by providing aid through activities like food and clothing drives, campus awareness seminars, Christmas Giving Trees, trick or treat for cans, and hunger and homelessness week.

S.T.I.C.K.S.
(Students Tutoring and Instructing in Classrooms for Kids to Succeed) Tutor and mentor youth at local middle schools, particularly in the subject of mathematics.

Spanish Ambassadors
Speak Spanish? Want to practice the language and help translate? Sign up to visit newly immigrated and struggling Latin families and help them learn how to adapt to North American life.

Special Olympics Invitational
Plan and organize the USU Special Olympics Fall Area Games and Fall Invitational and provide encouragement to the participating athletes.

Storytellers
Storytellers provide opportunities for children ages 3-10 to participate in reading and activity sessions usually lasting for an hour or an hour and a half. Sessions are held in a large variety of location, Like Edith Bowen Laboratory School, Ellis, and Woodruff Elementary. The storytellers also participate in one-time projects like Telebration, and Trick-o-treat for
books, and the Children’s Book Week at the Logan Library.

United Campus Volunteers
Help increase communication among student organizations, develop campus-wide service programs, and provide all students with the opportunity to participate in community and campus service projects.

USU Special Olympics Team
Assist in providing sports training for adults and children with mental disabilities by helping with weekly practices or team management.