Project Citizen team members from Centennial High School, Columbus, Ohio, will send their project board and portfolio – entitled “Apps for CHAPS (Centennial Honors & AP Students)” – as the Ohio entry at the National Project Citizen Showcase in Los Angeles, CA, July 19 – 21, 2012. 

Team members, pictured above L-R: Brandon Upchurch, Victoria Vallee, Joel Waits, Michael Jamison, Britteny Slaughter, Aya Bsatee

What is Project Citizen?
Project Citizen is a portfolio-based civic education project for middle and high school students as well as youth groups and is designed to promote competent and responsible participation in state and local government. Project Citizen actively engages students in learning how to monitor and influence public policy and encourages civic participation among students, parents, and members of the community.

Who can use Project Citizen?
Project Citizen is flexible enough to be used in the classroom with a community support group or as an after school program. Anyone can use the program though it is formatted for students in grades 5 and up.  Last year, more than 300,000 students and 5,000 teachers around the world used Project Citizen. Not only was Project Citizen used in every U.S. state, but also in Bosnia, Herzegovina, Brazil, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Ireland, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mexico, Mongolia, Poland and Russia.

Ordering textbooks
Project Citizen textbooks can be purchased at http://store.civiced.org.  OCLRE receives 40% of the net sales of all merchandise sold through the website. 

OCLRE also has books available for distribution for a $5 per book shipping fee.
Click here for the OCLRE Project Citizen book order form.
Click here to order books from OCLRE online.