Fall 2021 Project Samples

Junior Seminar - Fall 2021
This past semester, each KCS junior developed and executed a junior project of their own making with the help of mentors, peers, and teachers. The class of 2023 truly raised the bar on junior projects! Projects ranged from businesses, campus beautification efforts (including inside and outside murals), organizing field trips to enhance cultural understanding, starting an NHS chapter at the KCS, painting stairwells to represent fractions for elementary students, influencing legislation for better access to feminine hygiene products, filmmaking as a means to explore social and environmental issues, designing and developing curriculum for lower division classes, podcasting, musical engineering, and so much more!

Excellent junior projects are:

* Compelling and Authentic
Connected with student passions, builds on interests or inspires development of new interests, has a genuine impact. Founded with a driving question.

* Connected
Connects students with the community and world around them.

* Rigorous
Challenges students on academic and personal levels, pushes student outside of their comfort zone to learn more and do more than they thought they could.

* Research-Based
Students learn as much as they can about a topic by exploring a variety of sources and perspectives, including books, magazines, news sources, performance and visual art, music, experiences, interviews, etc.

* Documented
The true value of independent projects is found just as much in the process than in the final product. Students collect evidence and take photos as they move through their experience.

We chose a few samples that best capture these characteristics to showcase here. Click below to check them out and enjoy!

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