Project Citizen Annual 2010 State Showcase

Lyman Moore Middle School, Portland, Maine Advances to National Showcase!
	"Greening our Schools" Exemplary Portfolio Winners and Maine Representatives at the National Conference of State Legislatures!

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Students from Windham Middle School, Windham, Maine were recognized at the awards ceremony as this year's oral hearing winners with their project, Team 21.

On May 7, 2010 KIDS Consortium was host to the annual State Showcase held at the State House in Augusta, Maine. Middle school students gathered to share their public policy service-learning projects with one another and to adult policy-makers. During the public viewing of projects, each group of students displayed portfolios and binders highlighting their research and documentation.

Each participating class worked for several weeks examining a local public policy issue by studying the impact of the problem on the community. They evaluated alternative solutions to the problem, proposed an agreed-upon public policy solution, and created a political action plan to enlist local or state authorities in adopting their proposed policy.

Statewide nearly 500 students from across Maine participated in the 2010 We the People: Project Citizen Maine program. Approximately 100 students participated in the showcase at the State House.

2010 Participating School Districts:

Boothbay Region Elementary School - Grade 8

Teachers: Cordelia Chase and Nick Scott
Project Title: Go Green
Project Title: Childhood Obesity
Project Title: Things Aren’t Always As They Seem - Body Image

Calais Middle/High School - Grade 7

Teacher: Jay Skriletz
Project Title: Cheap and Easy: Making It Tougher for Teens to Get Alcohol

Cape Elizabeth Middle School - Grade 8

Teachers: Evan Solender, Terese Roberts, Tabitha Eastman
Project Title: What A Killer Look
Project Title: Th1nk B4 U Cl1ck
Project Title: From Garbage To Garden

Holbrook School - Grade 8

Teacher: Amy Stevens
Project Title: C1P1 (Cut One, Plant One)

Lyman Moore Middle School - Grade 7

Teachers: David Hilton and Matt Pringle
Project Title: Preventing School Dropouts
Project Title: Greening Our Schools

Windham Middle School - Grade 6

Teachers: Shelly Cook and Kate Berry
Project Title: Steroids
Project Title: Team 21

Special thanks to:

• We the People: Project Citizen Program at the Center for Civic Education
• 2009 Portfolio Winners - Members: Michaela Forde and Moriah Brown Cape Elizabeth Middle School, Cape Elizabeth, Maine
• Governor John Baldacci
• Senator Olympia Snowe
• Senator Susan Collins
• Glenn Nerbak, Teacher, Portland Public Schools
• 2010 Judges