Extension can help people research customs and arts, design period costumes, or create settings in which people can identify more strongly with their community. Teaching leadership and management skills. As part of festival planning, Extension professionals can teach a variety of leadership and management skills such as goal-setting, team building, volunteer motivation, and financial management. Festival organizers can apply these leadership skills to a variety of community problems. Leading on-site demonstrations.
Community festivals offer agents opportunities to directly teach and reach new audiences.
Some Extension agents have expanded their clientele at festivals through demonstrations on recycling, sustainable agriculture, or youth at risk. Parade floats, displays, and interactive exchanges can be used to teach new concepts. Discussing public policy choices. Extension professionals can teach public policy choices through celebrations. For example, Kentucky's recent Licking River Clean Water Relay involved demonstrating how river system communities are interdependent on each other for clean water.