CALS Innovation + Leadership: Service Impact
This digital badge is designed to provide an experiential learning opportunity to participants and help individuals leverage their personal strengths and skills in academic learning projects relevant to agriculture and life sciences. Service experiential learning can include but is not limited to, non-profit work, service learning, and volunteering.
The “Innovation + Leadership: Service Impact” digital badge consists of the completion of one experiential learning experience, guided reflection on innovation and leadership competency development, the Pathway Planner, optional professional development workshops, and a final project presentation.
This badge is offered by the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Iowa State University as part of a larger Innovation and Leadership pathway program intended for college students to develop career readiness and life-long skills and competencies for success.
Skills / Knowledge
- Non-Profit
- Service Learning
- Volunteering
- Project Management
- Experiential Learning
- Leadership
- Innovation
- CliftonStrengths
- Skills
- Self-Reflection
- Oral Communcation
- Effective Presentation
Earning Criteria
Required
Participants submit a brief proposal for their experiential learning project, attend project check-in meetings optionally, participate in the experience, complete final reflection, attend relevant workshops optionally, and present their project at the end-of-semester public event. Using the Pathway Planner, the participants map how their project participation and implementation align with their career and self-development goals.
Learning Outcomes:
Participate in experiential learning relevant to personal and career goals
Inspire, persuade, and motivate self and others under a shared vision
Apply creative and innovative problem-solving to manage and complete projects
Demonstrate effective use of personal strengths and skills in problem-solving and leadership
Assessment:
Participants earning the digital badge must successfully complete the academic experiential learning, guided reflection activities on innovation and leadership development, the Pathway Planner, and public presentation. The participants demonstrate proficiency in the following:
Effective experiential learning management
Application of Personal Strengths and Experiences
Clear Communication
All completed and submitted student work is assessed by the CALS Pathways Service Impact Badge Rubric developed by using the 8 NACE Career Ready Competency Standards of career and self-development, leadership, critical thinking, communication, and professionalism rubrics. Participants must display an “advanced” level of proficiency and earn at least 80 percentile points. The rubric covers four levels of proficiency: emerging knowledge, understanding, early application, and advanced application.