01 / STUDENTS
Show what you can do
Bring together class projects, independent work, and ventures. Find collaborators and opportunities to put your skills into practice. Students will never pay to participate.
A new home for student work
Take what you know into the world.
Class to Impact brings student ideas, skills, and projects together with organizations facing real challenges. Built for every discipline, and for the work that deserves to go beyond the classroom.
→Where student work finds its next step.
The idea
Good work should go somewhere.
Students create valuable work every day, often with little visibility beyond a class. Class to Impact is being built as a place to show that work, find people to build with, and connect it to real needs outside campus.
02 / ORGANIZATIONS
Share a real need
Describe a challenge, explore student work across disciplines, and connect with people who bring fresh thinking to your organization.
03 / UNIVERSITIES
Extend learning
Give student work a path beyond the course, while making it easier for faculty and campus communities to see where ideas are taking shape.
How it connects
From a starting point to a real opportunity.
Projects, people, and problems belong in the same conversation.
01
Students share their work
Ideas, class projects, independent work, and ventures can be seen beyond the classroom.
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Organizations share needs
Real questions and challenges give students a chance to apply their skills.
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People work together
Connections can grow into projects, learning, and outcomes that matter.
Across disciplines
What could this look like?
Illustrative scenarios show the kinds of connections Class to Impact is being designed to support.
A community challenge
A clearer way to reach people
A local organization shares a communication challenge. Students in design, writing, and data analysis explore it together and present ideas.
A student project
More than a final grade
A student shares a research or design project, finds a collaborator from another field, and develops it for an audience beyond class.
A new venture
An idea meets real feedback
A student founder makes a venture visible and connects with peers, faculty, and organizations who can help test the idea.
Where things stand
Building toward an initial pilot.
Class to Impact is an early-stage platform. The first focus is a university-centered pilot in Pennsylvania, with the broader goal of connecting students and organizations across disciplines and campuses.
Interested in taking part? We’re talking with students, educators, and organizations as the experience takes shape. Access and pilot details are still being prepared.
A conversation can be the first step
Let’s put student potential to work.
Class to Impact was created by Jed Horning, a Kutztown University alumnus who serves on its CS&IT Industrial Advisory Board. If you have a student project, a real-world challenge, or an idea for a university collaboration, reach out to start a conversation.