Who helps the student locate appropriate mentors for the project?

The Graduation Project provides students with the opportunity to apply skills and processes learned throughout the K-12 educational process independently.  Many curricula through this process emphasize the importance of learning how to locate appropriate resources to complete a task.  While students may receive help from the teacher/advisor, a parent/guardian, or other adult, the primary responsibility for locating an appropriate mentor rests with the student.

Who determines the deadline dates for the components of the project?

The Graduation Project was designed originally to be completed in a course format.  For those students who do so, the teacher/advisor, in accordance with the guidelines for the project established by the individual high school, sets the deadline dates for the components of the project.  Those students who arrange to complete the project components in an alternative format must arrange to meet deadline dates as outlined by the guidelines for the project established by the individual high school. 

Who pays for the materials required for completion of the project?

Individual students are fiscally responsible for the materials for the completion of the project.  Students are expected to plan their projects according to funds available (which may include locating funding sources).

What will my child have to do?

To fulfill the requirement, students must:

• Design, carry out, and complete a project.
• Submit a “proposal” describing the project and the activities it will involve, and sign an agreement accepting responsibility for completing a project.
• Meet standards—statements that describe what students are expected to know and be able to do—in more than one subject area (Action Plan.
• Use materials, technology, etc. to create and present the project.
• Meet regularly with his or her Project Mentor.
• Keep a “Project Journal” that tracks progress.
• Write a “Reflective Essay” —an essay that includes the student’s own rating of his or her work.
• Gather together all written materials, research notes, and other evidence of learning, and submit this collection as a “Project Portfolio.”
• Create an outline for the panel presentation.
• Present the project to a panel—a group of three to five adults that may include teachers and other staff members, community members and parents.

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