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Senior Research Experience

This project offers seniors the opportunity to develop and demonstrate their research skills as they explore (under the direction of the Librarian and a faculty mentor) an intellectual passion or civic, social, moral or ethical issue in depth to produce a challenging student-driven, mentor guided culminating project. It is required for those students opting for the ACS Athens Honors Diploma.

Assessment requirements:

The final demonstration which may be a formal essay, or it may be a multi-media production, a film, an exhibition, an invention, a lecture, a community project, an engineering solution, etc. The final demonstration is presented to a panel of judges in May of the senior year.

A final reflective essay, in which the student reflects on the process of completing the project and on what he/she has learned as a result of his/her work (about the subject/issue studied and about his/her own learning/thinking process and the evolution of his/her ideas, beliefs and understanding).

Students will not receive graduation credit for the Senior Honors Project, but their grade will be recorded on their official transcript and college and university admissions officers will be apprised of the fact that students have engaged in a year-long research endeavor equal in scope and rigor to the IB Extended Essay.