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Driving Question:
How can the class of 2016 create lasting, positive effects, addressing needs in either their school
or community environments, by designing projects of their own and taking action in the field?
Requirements to participate:
In order to be eligible to participate, you must:
- Be eligible for graduation
- Pass all 12th grade classes (no Is)**
- Return a parent notification form
- Present a written proposal of your project
ideas
Overview:
During this eight week period, students will be working on their own or in a small group (four
students or less) to achieve a project that makes a positive, lasting impact on our Da Vinci
campus and/or in our local communities. Each student/group will be provided with a 12th grade
teacher who will act as an advisor. Each project must have a set of tangible products or
deliverables. Get creative with what your final product may be!
Deliverables in the past have included:
Strong Ideas
- Outreach programs for at-risk youth
- Innovative product design
- Student produced documentaries or feature films
- Volunteer, community building and fundraising events that
have a significant, measurable impact
- Improvement or beautification of a community space
Weak Ideas
- New student-run clubs
- Awareness campaigns
- Recycling programs
- Volunteering with or
fundraising for existing
organizations
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Scheduling
Each students schedule is granted at the discretion of the advisors. Students will present their
progress to their cohort once per week, will consult with their advisor twice per week and will be
granted in-class work time at least twice per week. In the twice-per-week advisor consultation
meetings, students must provide evidence of their progress in order to continue to earn the right
to have fieldwork time. Students in the field are responsible for letting their advisor know where
they are in the field at all times*. Advisors will be performing random site checks.
*If students are absent without excuse from on-campus meeting time, if they are absent for a
random site check, or fail to provide evidence of progress at any time, field work time and other
senior privileges can and will be revoked.*
**Students that do not pass all classes with a C- or better will be retained on campus for the
standard bell schedule: five days-a-week, seven hours-a-day. Students with Incompletes will still
be paired with an advisor to whom they will report every day, and with whom they will design a
plan for passing any eligible classes. They will be required to do make-up work on campus until
all classes are passed.**
Presentations
Students will do four presentations during the Senior Project Process: a Pitch POL, a Midway
POL, Senior Showcase, and a Final POL.
The Pitch POL will be the students opportunity to share their ideas with the entire 12th
grade team and receive feedback and approval to move on to the Senior Project field
work schedule.
The Midway POL presentation is formal, is given to their advisor and at least one other
teacher, and will require students to present an outline for their final POL, raw data /
footage from their fieldwork, research samples that theyve done, and challenges theyve
encountered so far.
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Deadlines
Phase 1:
Parent Informational Meeting on Feb. 2nd @ 5:30pm
Group Proposals and Parent/Guardian Signatures due: Feb. 19th
Advisors begin meeting with students: March 7th
Exhibition Presentation: March 23rd
Phase 2:
Pitch POL Prep: Week of April 11th
Project Pitch POLs: Week of April 18th
Phase 3:
Field Work Schedule Begins: Week of April 25th
Midway POLs: Week of May 9th
Final POLs: Week of May 30th
Proposals
Each group will be presenting a proposal packet for addressing a particular topic in a way that
will leave a positive, lasting effect on the Da Vinci Schools and/or on your community.
Each group is responsible for presenting:
A Group Topic Proposal Form (page 4) along with
Three Project Idea Forms (page 7 & 8) by February 19th.
Once this proposal packet has been received by the 12th grade teaching team, each student/group
will be matched with an advisor.
The focus of the Group Topic Proposal is simple: propose a topic that you (and/or your group)
would like to explore. This topic should be broad, or general, like a theme that many project
ideas could connect to. The topic of your Senior Project will most likely be a community need or
issue that you wish to address for 6 weeks.
The focus of the Project Idea form is to start getting more specific. This is where you would list
specific goals, deliverables, and objectives that you would want to accomplish that would
connect to your project topic. One idea, or a combination of these ideas, will be used to
formulate the final project idea for that group. See page 4 for more details
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Senior Projects:
Group Topic Proposal Form (One per group)
Each group must present a proposal by Feb 19th that outlines the lasting impact they wish to
make, along with different project ideas, objectives/goals, professionals and/or organizations the
students hope to work with, etc.
Each group is responsible for presenting one Group Topic Proposal Form (this sheet) along with
three Project Idea Forms (page 7 & 8). Once these proposals have been received by the 12th grade
teaching team, each student/group will be matched with an advisor.
As a group, please fill out this sheet, and three Project Idea proposals, and then attach
them to this sheet. Return this proposal packet to Mr. Stoll NO LATER THAN Feb. 19th
Project Topic:
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Date:
Parent/Guardian Signature:
Date:
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The plan is to have seniors on campus from about 9am-1:15pm every day from April 25th until
graduation, according to the following schedule guidelines:
Students will present their progress to their cohort once per week to get feedback on project
progress, to receive suggestions for improvement, and to share ideas and successes
Students will consult with their advisor twice per week. In the twice-per-week advisor
consultation meetings, students must provide evidence of their progress in order to continue
to earn the right to have fieldwork time (ie: half-days).
Students in the field are responsible for letting their advisor know where they are in the field
at all times. Advisors will be performing random site checks during the project.
Proposals for projects will be due Friday, February 19th. Advisors will read through the
proposals and return them to students on Monday, March 2nd. PLEASE NOTE THAT IF A
STUDENT HAS ONE OR MORE INCOMPLETES, HE OR SHE WILL BE UNABLE TO
PARTICIPATE IN THE SENIOR PROJECT FIELD WORK SCHEDULE.
In order to be eligible to fully participate, each student must:
- Be eligible for graduation
- Pass all 12th grade classes (no Is)**
- Return this parent notification form
- Present a written proposal of project ideas
- Provide a project overview and calendar
- Present group project idea for Spring Exhibition
- Create a project pitch and present final project idea for approval
Please contact any of your students 12th grade teachers via email if you have any further
questions, suggestions or comments. Thank you!
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Project Idea
(Idea ___ of 3)
Please describe one project idea that you or your group would like to propose for the topic
you want to dress. Once complete, attach to the Group Proposal Form and
return to Mr. Stoll by Feb. 19th.
Project Topic:
Explain the need for this project: how does it address the group topic, and why would you
need 6 weeks to accomplish this? (write two to three sentences)
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Desired impact:
(What do you want the lasting impacts of your project to be?)
List three organizations that may be used as resources and their contact information:
(What organizations/professionals do you hope to work with on this project?)
Organizations / Professionals
1)
2)
3)
List some potential roadblocks you might face during the course of addressing the need you
identified? How might you find solutions to these roadblocks?
Roadblocks
Solutions
contacts)
contacts)
1)
2)
3)
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