LEAP is a University of Utah program designed to prepare new students to transition into college by providing small classes, active engagement on campus and a pipeline into scholarships and employment. Each student is assigned their own personal librarian so they have guidance in research, citations, and other skills. Librarians from both the J. Willard Marriott Library and from the Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library also teach classes within the LEAP program; a few examples include Health Inequities, Community Engaged Learning and Engineering for Minoritized Students in STEM. Scholarships are also awarded.

Each April the LEAP students show-off their capstone project posters at the LEAP Symposium. Librarians serve as judges, covering each academic category.

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• Best Zine – Jasmine Flores, “Who?”
• Best Infographic – Ulises Alvarado, Aidan Harshany, Elena Husarik, Alexus Quayson-Sackey, “Blacks and High Rates of HIV/AIDS”
• Best in Games – Zain Kergaye, “Zain’s Board Game of Life”