Project Citizen State Showcase Held in Oklahoma City
The We the People: Project Citizen State Showcase was held at the Oklahoma Bar Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on May 4, 2011.
We the People: Project Citizen is a curricular program that promotes competent and responsible participation in local and state government. The program helps young people learn how to monitor and influence public policy. In the process, they develop support for democratic values and principles, tolerance, and feelings of political efficacy.
Entire classes of students or members of youth organizations work cooperatively to identify a public policy problem in their community. They research the problem, evaluate alternative solutions, develop their own solution in the form of a public policy, and create a political action plan to enlist local or state authorities to adopt their proposed policy. Participants develop a portfolio of their work and present their project in a hearing showcase before a panel of civic-minded community members.
The Project Citizen program is administered with the assistance of a national network of state and congressional district coordinators in every state. It is funded by the U.S. Department of Education by act of Congress.
Congratulations to the following classes:
First Place: Diane Reece - 5th/6th Grade Classes, Bokoshe Elementary, Bokoshe
Danger Fly Ash is in the Air We Breathe
Second Place: Shelley Zevnik Breece - Union 8th Grade Center, Broken Arrow
Bridge Over Troubled Waters
Third Place: Janet Cook - 5th Grade Girls, Laverne Elementary, Laverne
Climbing to Safety
The National Project Citizen Showcase competition will be held in San Antonio, Texas August 8–10. Representing the state of Oklahoma will be Diane Reece's 5th and 6th grade portfolio Danger Fly Ash is in the Air We Breathe from Bokoshe, Oklahoma.
In Oklahoma, this program is administered by the Oklahoma Bar Association’s Law‑related Education Department.
