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Graphic design has become a necessity in various areas of life, including branding and website design. Nowadays, graphic design has become an important part of various sectors of life, especially to support the economic and marketing sectors. Therefore, graphic design visual arts abilities and skills are very necessary. This is an opportunity to equip young people with graphic design skills. The results of a survey conducted by the service team showed that Medan city teenagers have a high interest in graphic design art. So real efforts need to be made to equip Medan city teenagers with graphic design skills. Therefore, in this community service activity, graphic design training and assistance was carried out using the Canva application to increase the creativity of Medan city teenagers. The method of implementing community service is in the form of lectures providing material directly by resource persons to partners.

One of the work programs of KKN students batch 56 batch 20 UIN KH. Abdurrahman Wahid Pekalongan is an ecoprint. The target of this activity is elementary school children and their age. This study aims to determine the application of children's creativity by utilizing natural potential through ecoprint activities and learning reflection tools that can create environmentally friendly products. The method used in this research is planting, socialization, and direct practice. This research took place in a collaborative manner which was attended by elementary school children and led by the KKN 56 Team of 20 UIN KH. Abdurrahman Wahid Pekalongan. Observations in this study were carried out directly by observing elementary school children's activities in the coloring process using ecoprinting techniques and observing how ecoprinting activities can stimulate children's skills and creativity. Data collection is done by observation and documentation. The results of the study show that coloring activities using the ecoprint technique are learning innovations for children by utilizing natural potential to explore skills and creativity in children. In addition, natural materials that are around children can be an inspiration for children to learn how to create new products that are environmentally friendly.  

Enhancing the quality of education involves fostering strong literacy skills, not only in academic aspects but also in understanding, processing, and conveying information. In the midst of globalization and technology, literacy skills have become increasingly important in facing the changes of the times. This study aims to develop a playful learning approach that encourages enjoyable literacy activities in Desa Sokawati. Employing a qualitative approach with an action research design, this study engages children, educators, parents, and the community in Desa Sokawati. Engaging literacy activities tailored to the characteristics of children are designed based on surveys and interviews. Once planned, these literacy activities are implemented in KB, TK, and SD classes. Observations of children's and educators' responses are conducted during the implementation phase. The results indicate that the playful learning approach is effective in fostering enjoyable literacy activities in Desa Sokawati. Children are engaged in various activities that combine creativity, art, and learning. By developing an approach that suits the characteristics of children and the local potential, this study aims to provide practical guidance for educators, parents, and the community in enhancing children's literacy in Desa Sokawati. Furthermore, this research contributes to the development of sustainable literacy-based education in rural areas.  

Content creator training conducted by the Indonesian Business Polytechnic in collaboration with the Simarmata Young Generation to increase young people's creativity. This activity aims to increase young people's knowledge of using social media to get various benefits. Activities are carried out in workshops accompanied by practices using Instagram and TikTok media as content media. Seventy youth participants from Pematang Siantar attended the action. The training continued enthusiastically because the speaker is an activist content creator on YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram. After the activity, an activity survey showed that 98% of the participants were very interested in the material presented and gained new knowledge about using social media for more positive things.

Early childhood is the age of the child which is very decisive for the formation of a person's character, personality, intellectual and moral. So, parents must be able to maximize the provision of positive stimuli to children during their golden age. There are many ways that can be done in cultivating character and morals, one of which is storytelling. In a fairy tale, it usually contains elements of education, norms, various emotions and characters. Therefore, storytelling is an effective way of instilling morality in children, fostering creativity in children, increasing vocabulary in children, and increasing imagination in children. The method in this service is storytelling. Informants or subjects in this service are the early childhood children of TPQ At-Taqwa Ar-Rohmah Pracimantoro Mosque. The result of this dedication is to provide fairy tales to early childhood to teach a variety of emotions and characters for inculcating morals in early childhood. The conclusion from the dedication carried out by the resource persons can be explained that storytelling is an effective learning method for conveying moral messages to early childhood, because at their age, they have broad imaginations and tend to like fun learning methods, so they don't get bored quickly . By storytelling, instilling morals in early childhood is also easier.

Visual aids are tools that can stimulate students' thoughts, skills, attention and willingness so that they can encourage the learning process in students, besides that using teaching aids can provide space for students to be actively involved in every learning process. In fact, in Toyang State Junior High School, mathematics learning has not used visual aids. The props created and used are number pattern boxes made of used cardboard, which are designed in such an attractive way to form several number pattern boxes consisting of: square, rectangular and triangular boxes. This visual aid is used in the learning process for class VIII students of SMP Negeri Toyang. This training aims to help foster the creativity of students and improve students' ability to use teaching aids. The result of this training is that students get new experiences by learning to use visual aids, this can be seen from the enthusiasm of the students who are very large and students more easily understand the concept of number patterns

The Teaching Campus Program provides opportunities for students to learn outside the classroom by becoming teacher partners in the learning process at the educational level. Through this program the role of students is needed to provide better learning to schools and hone creativity. In addition, during the assignment, students are also given the task of assisting the administration at the school where the assignment is. As for what we do on the sidelines of the activities that we program, we also help with school administration in accordance with directions from the school and school operators.

In accordance with the title of this community service program "Utilization of Information Technology to Increase Student Creativity". Skills training activities are supported by lectures, questions and answers and of course direct practice in the computer laboratory. Training modules will be provided to participants as a tool for practical activities in the laboratory. The aim of implementing this community service program is to improve students' skills in using the internet and the benefits and activities that can be carried out using the internet, so that it can increase students' creativity in using the internet, especially to have a positive impact on internet use for students. This form of training is a very effective form of providing refreshment and additional insight and new knowledge in the field of information technology outside of the learning process received at each school.

Reativity and skills in the field of technology are a unit that go hand in hand and are indispensable in the world of work. For this reason, it needs to be instilled early on in directing and developing the skills and creativity of a student. Given the large number of companies engaged in graphic design, advertising and multimedia, it affects the development of the times and everyone's knowledge. In the very rapid development of technology like now we are required to be able to become people who have more creativity. This Community Service is carried out at the Al-Wasliyah Hamparan Perak Vocational School, where the author will help younger siblings to be able to make simple games from power point. But it doesn't demand the possibility for them to recreate it into games that are more creative, innovative and useful.

Tujuan penelitian ini adalah menguji pengaruh emotional intelligence, kreativitas pegawai terhadap kinerja pegawai generasi Y di Sekretariat Daerah Kabupaten Blora dengan kepuasan kerja sebagai variabel intervening. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian survei. Data yang digunakan adalah data primer dengan mengambil sampel pegawai generasi Y di lingkungan Sekretariat Daerah Kabupaten Blora sebanyak 46 responden. Metode analisis data diuji dengan uji validitas, uji reliabilitas, uji asumsi klasik, uji partial (uji t), uji serempak (uji F), uji R square dan uji analisis jalur dengan mengunakan alat statistik SPSS 22. Hasil uji t sebagai berikut : emotional intelligence berpengaruh positif dan signifikan terhadap kepuasan kerja. Kreativitas pegawai berpengaruh positif dan signifikan terhadap kepuasan kerja. Emotional intelligence berpengaruh positif dan signifikan terhadap kinerja. Kreativitas pegawai berpengaruh positif dan signifikan terhadap kinerja. Kepuasan kerja berpengaruh positif dan signifikan terhadap kinerja. Hasil uji F menunjukkan bahwa secara simultan variabel emotional intelligence, kreativitas pegawai, dan kepuasan kerja berpengaruh positif dan signifikan terhadap kinerja pegawai. Uji R square menunjukkan bahwa 82,9% variasi dari kinerja pegawai dapat dijelaskan oleh emotional intelligence, kreativitas pegawai, dan kepuasan kerja dan sisanya sebesar 17,1% dijelaskan variabel-variabel lain diluar model penelitian, misalnya komitmen organisasi, disiplin kerja, kepemimpinan, dan lain lain. Hasil uji analisa jalur menunjukkan bahwa pengaruh langsung emotional intelligence terhadap kinerja lebih besar dari pengaruh tidak langsung emotional intelligence terhadap kinerja dengan kepuasan kerja sebagai variabel intervening. Sedangkan pengaruh langsung kreativitas pegawai terhadap kinerja lebih besar dari pengaruh tidak langsung kreativitas pegawai terhadap kinerja dengan kepuasan kerja sebagai variabel intervening. Berdasarkan hasil pengaruh total untuk meningkatkan kinerja akan lebih efektif apabila melalui peningkatan emotional intelligence.

This service aims to implement the Focus Group Discussion (FGD) teaching method on PAI material at the high school level. This service uses a qualitative descriptive method which is carried out in class XI, totaling 35 students which is carried out through the preparation, implementation and evaluation stages. The problems faced by students when learning tend to use the lecture method, especially in PAI lessons, students are only listeners without having to express students' opinions, this results in a decrease in student interest and activity when receiving lessons. The results of this service prove that students have empathy during the learning process and can express creativity in explaining material, hone students' confidence in expressing opinions and train students' cohesiveness with other students which makes the method effective. This model can be a stimulus for educators who want to apply the PAI learning method in the classroom.