Annual Service-Learning Student Showcase
University of Central Florida – FL, Florida
Contact person: Amy Zeh, Service-Learning Program Director (Amy.Zeh {at} ucf(.)edu)
Office of Experiential Learning
4000 Central Florida Blvd.
300 CSEL
Orlando Florida 32816-1700

Each spring the University of Central Florida sponsors a showcase of student service-learning projects in the Student Union. UCF students who have engaged in service-learning classes have a chance to present their individual or group initiatives and vie for over $10,000 in juried scholarship awards funded by UCF’s Student Government Association, participating colleges and the Office of Experiential Learning. Scholarships and Recognition Awards include:

• Pedagogical Value Scholarship
• Quality of Display Scholarship
• Value to Agency & Community Scholarship
• Caliber of Reflection Scholarship
• Enhancement of Civic Responsibility Scholarship
• Graduate & Undergraduate Engagement Scholarships
• Graduate & Undergraduate Innovative Project Scholarships
• Graduate & Undergraduate Leadership Scholarship
• Capacity Building Scholarship
• Literacy Engagement Scholarship
• Significant Impact Scholarship
• Sustainability Scholarships: Environmental, Economic, and Social Scholarship
• Youth Development Scholarship
• Peer Choice Scholarship
• College Excellence Scholarships
• The Experiential Learning Scholarship
• Engaging the Arts Recognition Award
• Engaging Community Online Recognition Award
• Non-Traditional Literacy Engagement Recognition Award
• Social Justice Recognition Award
• STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) Recognition Award
• Technological Integration Recognition Award

Through class visits and email communications each semester, the Program Director for Service-Learning invites all students to participate in the event. Faculty members are also asked to encourage their students to create displays of their service-learning projects for the spring showcase. Students submit an online application individually or as teams to enter.

All faculty members, students, community partners, and community members are invited to attend. The event is a wonderful opportunity for the university and the extended community to recognize what UCF students are doing to combine course curriculum with civic engagement. Admission is free and refreshments are served.

Website: http://www.explearning.ucf.edu