Youngstown State held its Community Engagement Symposium this afternoon featuring poster presentations and ideas from students in the Sokolov Honors College.

The event is an idea exchange session with faculty and students highlighting group projects that are completed by freshmen in the honors seminar Campus Community Partnerships who have engaged in group projects with 25 community partners.

"Community-engaged scholarship is happening across campus," said Amy Cossentino, Associate Provost and Dean, Sokolov Honors College. "The symposium is a representative sample of how campus community partnerships lead to mutual benefit while addressing the public good."

Sokolov Honors College. Director Molly Hartup says these projects help students make lasting connections.

"We are always big on encouraging our students to get out and build relationships, make connections," said Hartup. "Networking is wonderful but if you can go out and do your work together and co-create an experience and meet community needs but you're also getting to know people at the same time, you're making those connections that last a lifetime."

An awards ceremony followed the poster presentation.