UANJumpstart2024

Play, Make, and Take a collection of activities back to your org that will grow your students' entrepreneurial mindsets and skills. Utilizing VentureLab’s 30-minute Session Outline and activities from VentureLab’s Engagement Activities Playbook, you will be able to establish positive routines and procedures while also bringing the fun that students love!

Working with teens can come with many rewards and challenges, just like being a teen, it can feel like a rollercoaster. Join us for a panel of experienced afterschool program staff in a discussion about the challenges you may face and strategies in recruiting, retaining, and engaging teens. Attendees will leave this session with input, ideas, and suggestions on strategies to create a place where teens feel a sense of belonging, ownership, and influence.

This session focuses on helping afterschool leaders more effectively collect and analyze data to measure their impact on their youth, make changes in real-time, and complete required reporting. Learn how to implement a Results-Based Accountability process without anxiety. Walk away with a simple plan to start collecting and analyzing the data you need for program sustainability and success.

Our primary goal is to equip you with better skills and knowledge needed to create purposeful, quality lesson plans in your programs. This presentation is designed to benefit both new and established after school programs by emphasizing important principles and strategies in lesson planning.

Almost every afterschool program teaches Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. How can you make STEM more fun, and more interesting for kids who don't want to build rockets and do science experiments? We have ideas for you! USU Extension has no-cost programming for afterschool programs ... curriculum, supplies, and support provided. Come and join us for a hands-on opportunity to learn how you can:

-Bring the science of Gardening to Afterschool
-Help youth to become inventors
-Turn ordinary crafts into true STEM Learning through fun projects and contests
-Integrate drones into afterschool
-Create a science bowl team
-Check out equipment free of charge to use in afterschool
-Learn where STEM and service intersect
Leave with materials and resources for your program

This session will help afterschool leaders identify and understand essential leadership skills to help navigate managing a team and running a high-quality program.

Helping afterschool professionals understand the needs of children and families impacted by adoption, kinship, and foster care is a critical first step to providing services to meet their unique needs, strengths, and challenges. Participants will learn common issues related to adoption, kinship, and foster care and available resources aimed at supporting these types of families. Walk away with information and resources that can be immediately used to support children living in adoptive, kinship, and foster homes in your afterschool programs.