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This paper reports the experience of executing the Institutional Extension Program Integrated Formative Actions (Afin), from the Federal University of Uberlândia (UFU), at the Patos de Minas Campus, from its implementation to the most recent edition, concluded in 2019. The entire structure of the program developed is described in this text, as well as the social and educational profile of the student attending the course, the difficulties encountered in carrying it out and the challenges to be overcome. Through testimonials from scholarship students (program teachers) and course students (pre-university students), some of the transformations that an extension program can contribute are presented: community transformations, personal transformations in the work team and also institutional transformation. Thus, contributing to the understanding of the extension concept and its importance to society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]