Science Education Partnership Award

Some Ideas for 12th Grade Student Projects

The following ideas may serve as potential student projects when a particular health issue is involved. Some of these ideas may be used for fund raising in an effort toward gaining self-sufficiency.

• Develop and provide staff development programs to teach technology skills to school staff, businesses or students. Use students to provide staff development programs for schools and charge those schools.
• Develop specialized power point presentations that can be presented live, saved on CD-ROM, or video formats.
• Post specialized presentations to web site.
• Write and/or produce dramatic presentations for performance or video taping. This could be done for sale or video streaming on web site. It could also be done in collaboration with drama/film clubs, classes, or other groups or schools.
• Create Interactive Electronic Field Trips for sale or posting on Web.
• Create banner ads for posting on web site.
• Sell stress reduction services to students and staff. (Massage, Yoga classes, stretching exercises, etc.)
• Create special community awareness events and invite guests. These may include industry, university, governmental, community, educators' etc. Events could range from; fund raising walks or runs, tours of science or medical centers, nutritional bake sales, panel discussions, Grand openings, etc.
• Use SEPA computers for training for software. Charge for training and give credit from Univ. or certificate for completion.
• Plan and organize a range of courses on computers-identify teachers and curriculum, schedule classes, promote the plan, and contract with groups.
• Produce and sell kits for teachers (packaged materials for use in classrooms.)
• Write articles to publish in journals and magazines.
• Create an E-Zine on health issues.
• Gather an e-mail list for notices, helpful hints, info blurbs, etc.
• Develop productions to place on commercial TV then contact respondents to program. These could include Public Service Announcements for radio and TV which could be sold to sponsors or organizations.
• Create children's books or pamphlets on health topics.
• Translate products to foreign languages and sell.
• Produce posters for use in elementary and junior high schools. Reference to web site at bottom. Sell to schools outside clusters or to health organizations.
• Sub-contract to health organizations to produce what they need.
• Produce and sell first aid kits and/or manuals
• Create and run a youth crisis hot line and ask for sponsorship.
• Create and run a youth crisis web site and get a corporate sponsor or sell banner ad space.
• Create and sell simple water testing kits.
• Create and sell disaster preparedness kits and manuals.
• Create and sell reference guides to; nutrition for teens, medicinal plants, dangerous stuff
• Sell access to video conferencing or sell video conferencing as a service
• Set up a web based collaboration project on a health topic.
• Specialize in technical or media production and allow billing of hours to other students, teachers, classes, schools, etc.
• Write a series of bulletin announcements.
• Create a ribbon awareness campaign.
• Set up a health-screening event and promote it.
• Sponsor public debates on health related topics and hold the debates during lunch.
• Create a computer graphic with a message and make a plan for distribution.
• Set-up and conduct an interactive web based video conference/debate on a health topic and promote tuning in.
• Gather existing video tours of companies or universities and create a web-linked page to these for career education.
• Contract with companies to produce one of these tours.
• Create events and invite guests to expose the program to the community. Invitees may include industry, university, governmental, community, educators' etc.
• Create tours of science or medical centers.
• Ask for in-kind help (printing, distribution, paper, supplies, and space for presentations, sponsorship for employee, etc.)
• Look for win/win situations for trade (offer web site construction, courses, workshops, etc.)
• Publish in journals and magazines.
• Sell subscribed services to charter schools.

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