Project allows you to stretch your learning (step out of your comfort zone)
Project challenges your present skills and activities
Project allows you to explore new areas; athletic, intellectual, service to others
Project will showcase your ability of problem-solving encompassing time-management, discipline, finding solutions to difficulties, overcoming hurdles and using outside resources.
Questions to consider when choosing a project
What do you enjoy doing in your spare time?
Is there a social problem you would like to investigate?
Do you have an invention or creation you would like to further explore?
If you could pursue your wildest dream, what would it be?
Have any travel experiences given you ideas?
What is one of the biggest problems facing the world today?
What would you like to be doing 10 years from now?
Will you still have the interest and the energy for your project three months from the time you started?
Questions to consider if you have chosen a project
Do you know all your potential resources? Consider possible books, magazines and primary sources
Have you made notes of all the special items you will need for your project?
Do you have a logical link between your project and your research paper?
Have you anticipated any problems you will have? Consider finances, resources, mentors and computer time
