The focus of the South Windsor High School Capstone Community Impact Project  is to engage each student in a personalized learning experience.  This project allows students the opportunity to apply their social, civic, and academic skills while exploring an area of interest outside the boundaries of their formal educational program.  

This experience offers:

the opportunity to collaborate with others.

participation in a community impact project.

What is a Community Impact Project?

The Community Impact Project  is any carefully monitored  service experience in which an individual has intentional learning goals and reflects on what they are learning through the experience.   Students that choose this option will identify, research and undertake a project to impact a particular issue in the community .

Types of Community Impact Projects:

• Relay for life  / Bark for life -  Cancer awareness

• Clinics  - instruction  for youth sports, activities, etc...

• Soup Kitchen - Hunger and Homelessness

Community Impact Project Requirements

15 hours must be at the place of your community impact experience. These 15 hours must be documented and signed off by a supervisor or facilitator

Options for Community Impact Project 

Summer                               School Year (senior year)

2 hrs per week                 2+ hours per week 

Must get prior approval.

*All Community Impact Project hours must be completed after the student’s proposal has been approved.

Documentation

Complete the documentation time log verifying the number of hours that you completed of community service.